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CVE-2024-49872 (GCVE-0-2024-49872)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-21 18:01 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:40
VLAI
Title
mm/gup: fix memfd_pin_folios alloc race panic
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/gup: fix memfd_pin_folios alloc race panic If memfd_pin_folios tries to create a hugetlb page, but someone else already did, then folio gets the value -EEXIST here: folio = memfd_alloc_folio(memfd, start_idx); if (IS_ERR(folio)) { ret = PTR_ERR(folio); if (ret != -EEXIST) goto err; then on the next trip through the "while start_idx" loop we panic here: if (folio) { folio_put(folio); To fix, set the folio to NULL on error.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-22 13:46 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 89c1905d9c140372b7f50ef48f42378cf85d9bc5 , < e28f39b359c0cfdcc011603e51187085a5f1e5e3 (git)
Affected: 89c1905d9c140372b7f50ef48f42378cf85d9bc5 , < ce645b9fdc78ec5d28067286e92871ddae6817d5 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.3 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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