fkie_cve-2024-41055
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2024-07-29 15:15
Modified
2025-11-03 22:17
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: prevent derefencing NULL ptr in pfn_section_valid() Commit 5ec8e8ea8b77 ("mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memory_section->usage") changed pfn_section_valid() to add a READ_ONCE() call around "ms->usage" to fix a race with section_deactivate() where ms->usage can be cleared. The READ_ONCE() call, by itself, is not enough to prevent NULL pointer dereference. We need to check its value before dereferencing it.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0100aeb8a12d51950418e685f879cc80cb8e5982Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/797323d1cf92d09b7a017cfec576d9babf99cde7Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82f0b6f041fad768c28b4ad05a683065412c226ePatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/941e816185661bf2b44b488565d09444ae316509Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adccdf702b4ea913ded5ff512239e382d7473b63Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc17f2377818dca643a74499c3f5333500c90503Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0100aeb8a12d51950418e685f879cc80cb8e5982Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/797323d1cf92d09b7a017cfec576d9babf99cde7Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82f0b6f041fad768c28b4ad05a683065412c226ePatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/941e816185661bf2b44b488565d09444ae316509Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adccdf702b4ea913ded5ff512239e382d7473b63Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc17f2377818dca643a74499c3f5333500c90503Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html
Impacted products
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linux linux_kernel *
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