CVE-2023-52939 (GCVE-0-2023-52939)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-27 16:37
Modified
2025-10-01 17:37
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: memcg: fix NULL pointer in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath() As commit 18365225f044 ("hwpoison, memcg: forcibly uncharge LRU pages"), hwpoison will forcibly uncharg a LRU hwpoisoned page, the folio_memcg could be NULl, then, mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath() could occurs a NULL pointer dereference, let's do not record the foreign writebacks for folio memcg is null in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty() to fix it.
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Linux Linux Version: 97b27821b4854ca744946dae32a3f2fd55bcd5bc
Version: 97b27821b4854ca744946dae32a3f2fd55bcd5bc
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