PT-2025-8764 · Linux+6 · Linux Kernel+6

Chen Ridong

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Published

2025-01-26

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Updated

2026-04-20

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CVE-2024-57977

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

VectorAV: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 soft lockup issue was found in the Linux kernel when approximately 56,000 tasks were in the OOM cgroup. This issue occurred because traversing thousands of processes in the OOM cgroup took a long time, leading to a soft lockup in the OOM process. The estimated number of potentially affected devices is not specified. There is no information about real-world incidents where this issue was exploited.
Recommendations To fix this issue, call cond resched in the mem cgroup scan tasks function per 1000 iterations. For global OOM, call touch softlockup watchdog per 1000 iterations to avoid this issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Improper Locking

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-667

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2025:20095
ALT-PU-2025-12647
AZL-58041
AZL-58053
BDU:2025-12270
CVE-2024-57977
DLA-4178-1
DLA-4193-1
DSA-5900-1
ECHO-3C9C-DED5-64BF
OESA-2025-1245
OESA-2025-1246
OESA-2025-1247
OESA-2025-1248
OESA-2025-1249
RHSA-2025:20095
USN-7510-1
USN-7510-2
USN-7510-3
USN-7510-4
USN-7510-5
USN-7510-6
USN-7510-7
USN-7510-8
USN-7511-1
USN-7511-2
USN-7511-3
USN-7512-1
USN-7516-1
USN-7516-2
USN-7516-3
USN-7516-4
USN-7516-5
USN-7516-6
USN-7516-7
USN-7516-8
USN-7516-9
USN-7517-1
USN-7517-2
USN-7517-3
USN-7518-1
USN-7521-1
USN-7521-2
USN-7521-3
USN-7539-1
USN-7540-1
USN-7593-1
USN-7602-1
USN-7640-1
USN-7703-1
USN-7703-2
USN-7703-3
USN-7703-4
USN-7719-1
USN-7737-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux
Astra Linux
Debian
Linuxmint
Linux Kernel
Red Os
Ubuntu