CVE-2024-41932 (GCVE-0-2024-41932)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-11 12:25 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:26
VLAI
Title
sched: fix warning in sched_setaffinity
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: fix warning in sched_setaffinity Commit 8f9ea86fdf99b added some logic to sched_setaffinity that included a WARN when a per-task affinity assignment races with a cpuset update. Specifically, we can have a race where a cpuset update results in the task affinity no longer being a subset of the cpuset. That's fine; we have a fallback to instead use the cpuset mask. However, we have a WARN set up that will trigger if the cpuset mask has no overlap at all with the requested task affinity. This shouldn't be a warning condition; its trivial to create this condition. Reproduced the warning by the following setup: - $PID inside a cpuset cgroup - another thread repeatedly switching the cpuset cpus from 1-2 to just 1 - another thread repeatedly setting the $PID affinity (via taskset) to 2
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6996 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8f9ea86fdf99b81458cc21fc1c591fcd4a0fa1f4 , < 5c3fb75f538cfcb886f6dfeb497d99fc2f263ee6 (git)
Affected: 8f9ea86fdf99b81458cc21fc1c591fcd4a0fa1f4 , < 70ee7947a29029736a1a06c73a48ff37674a851b (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.5 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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