PT-2024-29168 · Linux+1 · Linux Kernel+1
Published
2024-06-15
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Updated
2024-08-30
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CVE-2024-40950
CVSS v3.1
5.5
Medium
| Vector | AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description
A vulnerability has been resolved in the Linux kernel related to the
mapping large folio support() function, which is only reasonable for page cache folios. However, in split huge page to list to order(), the folio passed to mapping large folio support() may be an anonymous folio, causing the split of anonymous THP to fail. A check for folio test anon() is missing, and shmem mapping() is not involved in this case. The issue can be detected using /sys/kernel/debug/split huge pages.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploit
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Weakness Enumeration
Related Identifiers
Affected Products
Astra Linux
Linux Kernel