CVE-2024-35846
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35846
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-35846.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-35846
- Downstream
- Published
- 2024-05-17T15:15:21Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:26Z
- Severity
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- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: zswap: fix shrinker NULL crash with cgroup_disable=memory
Christian reports a NULL deref in zswap that he bisected down to the zswap shrinker. The issue also cropped up in the bug trackers of libguestfs [1] and the Red Hat bugzilla [2].
The problem is that when memcg is disabled with the boot time flag, the zswap shrinker might get called with sc->memcg == NULL. This is okay in many places, like the lruvec operations. But it crashes in memcgpagestate() - which is only used due to the non-node accounting of cgroup's the zswap memory to begin with.
Nhat spotted that the memcg can be NULL in the memcg-disabled case, and I was then able to reproduce the crash locally as well.
[1] https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/139 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2275252
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