ghsa-c2p3-c9fp-43mx
Vulnerability from github
Published
2025-03-27 18:31
Modified
2025-10-28 18:30
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm: multi-gen LRU: fix crash during cgroup migration

lru_gen_migrate_mm() assumes lru_gen_add_mm() runs prior to itself. This isn't true for the following scenario:

CPU 1                         CPU 2

clone() cgroup_can_fork() cgroup_procs_write() cgroup_post_fork() task_lock() lru_gen_migrate_mm() task_unlock() task_lock() lru_gen_add_mm() task_unlock()

And when the above happens, kernel crashes because of linked list corruption (mm_struct->lru_gen.list).

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  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2023-52940"
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    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-03-27T17:15:43Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm: multi-gen LRU: fix crash during cgroup migration\n\nlru_gen_migrate_mm() assumes lru_gen_add_mm() runs prior to itself.  This\nisn\u0027t true for the following scenario:\n\n    CPU 1                         CPU 2\n\n  clone()\n    cgroup_can_fork()\n                                cgroup_procs_write()\n    cgroup_post_fork()\n                                  task_lock()\n                                  lru_gen_migrate_mm()\n                                  task_unlock()\n    task_lock()\n    lru_gen_add_mm()\n    task_unlock()\n\nAnd when the above happens, kernel crashes because of linked list\ncorruption (mm_struct-\u003elru_gen.list).",
  "id": "GHSA-c2p3-c9fp-43mx",
  "modified": "2025-10-28T18:30:23Z",
  "published": "2025-03-27T18:31:25Z",
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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