CVE-2024-45021 (GCVE-0-2024-45021)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-11 15:13 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:37
VLAI
Title
memcg_write_event_control(): fix a user-triggerable oops
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memcg_write_event_control(): fix a user-triggerable oops we are *not* guaranteed that anything past the terminating NUL is mapped (let alone initialized with anything sane).
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-29 15:47 UTC
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6639 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 0dea116876eefc9c7ca9c5d74fe665481e499fa3 , < fa5bfdf6cb5846a00e712d630a43e3cf55ccb411 (git)
Affected: 0dea116876eefc9c7ca9c5d74fe665481e499fa3 , < 1b37ec85ad95b612307627758c6018cd9d92cca8 (git)
Affected: 0dea116876eefc9c7ca9c5d74fe665481e499fa3 , < ad149f5585345e383baa65f1539d816cd715fd3b (git)
Affected: 0dea116876eefc9c7ca9c5d74fe665481e499fa3 , < 0fbe2a72e853a1052abe9bc2b7df8ddb102da227 (git)
Affected: 0dea116876eefc9c7ca9c5d74fe665481e499fa3 , < 43768fa80fd192558737e24ed6548f74554611d7 (git)
Affected: 0dea116876eefc9c7ca9c5d74fe665481e499fa3 , < f1aa7c509aa766080db7ab3aec2e31b1df09e57c (git)
Affected: 0dea116876eefc9c7ca9c5d74fe665481e499fa3 , < 21b578f1d599edb87462f11113c5b0fc7a04ac61 (git)
Affected: 0dea116876eefc9c7ca9c5d74fe665481e499fa3 , < 046667c4d3196938e992fba0dfcde570aa85cd0e (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.34
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.34 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.321 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.283 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.225 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.166 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.107 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.48 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10.7 , ≤ 6.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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