CVE-2024-44948

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mtrr: Check if fixed MTRRs exist before saving them MTRRs have an obsolete fixed variant for fine grained caching control of the 640K-1MB region that uses separate MSRs. This fixed variant has a separate capability bit in the MTRR capability MSR. So far all x86 CPUs which support MTRR have this separate bit set, so it went unnoticed that mtrr_save_state() does not check the capability bit before accessing the fixed MTRR MSRs. Though on a CPU that does not support the fixed MTRR capability this results in a #GP. The #GP itself is harmless because the RDMSR fault is handled gracefully, but results in a WARN_ON(). Add the missing capability check to prevent this.

CVSS 3.1

5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 15% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

Published

2024-09-04

Modified

2026-10-15

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• linux:linux_kernel

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06c1de44d378ec5439db17bf476507d68589bfe9
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34f36e6ee5bd7eff8b2adcd9fcaef369f752d82e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/388f1c954019f253a8383f7eb733f38d541e10b6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/450b6b22acdaac67a18eaf5ed498421ffcf10051
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a90d3fc7c24608548d3a750671f9dac21d1a462

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