{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44976","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  ata: pata_macio: Fix DMA table overflow  Kolbjørn and Jonáš reported that their 32-bit PowerMacs were crashing in pata-macio since commit 09fe2bfa6b83 (\"ata: pata_macio: Fix max_segment_size with PAGE_SIZE == 64K\").  For example:    kernel BUG at drivers/ata/pata_macio.c:544!   Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]   BE PAGE_SIZE=4K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2 DEBUG_PAGEALLOC PowerMac   ...   NIP pata_macio_qc_prep+0xf4/0x190   LR  pata_macio_qc_prep+0xfc/0x190   Call Trace:     0xc1421660 (unreliable)     ata_qc_issue+0x14c/0x2d4     __ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x200/0x53c     ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x50/0xe0     scsi_queue_rq+0x788/0xb1c     __blk_mq_issue_directly+0x58/0xf4     blk_mq_plug_issue_direct+0x8c/0x1b4     blk_mq_flush_plug_list.part.0+0x584/0x5e0     __blk_flush_plug+0xf8/0x194     __submit_bio+0x1b8/0x2e0     submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x230/0x304     btrfs_work_helper+0x200/0x338     process_one_work+0x1a8/0x338     worker_thread+0x364/0x4c0     kthread+0x100/0x104     start_kernel_thread+0x10/0x14  That commit increased max_segment_size to 64KB, with the justification that the SCSI core was already using that size when PAGE_SIZE == 64KB, and that there was existing logic to split over-sized requests.  However with a sufficiently large request, the splitting logic causes each sg to be split into two commands in the DMA table, leading to overflow of the DMA table, triggering the BUG_ON().  With default settings the bug doesn't trigger, because the request size is limited by max_sectors_kb == 1280, however max_sectors_kb can be increased, and apparently some distros do that by default using udev rules.  Fix the bug for 4KB kernels by reverting to the old max_segment_size.  For 64KB kernels the sg_tablesize needs to be halved, to allow for the possibility that each sg will be split into two.","modified":"2026-09-15T09:03:10.887850618Z","published":"2024-09-04T20:15:07.223Z","upstream":["CVE-2024-44976"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-44976"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.10.7-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44976.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.10.7-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44976.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}