CVE-2024-43888

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43888
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-43888.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-43888
Downstream
Published
2024-08-26T11:15:03Z
Modified
2025-04-16T19:15:51Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

mm: list_lru: fix UAF for memory cgroup

The memcgroupfromslabobj() is supposed to be called under rcu lock or cgroup_mutex or others which could prevent returned memcg from being freed. Fix it by adding missing rcu read lock.

Found by code inspection.

[songmuchun@bytedance.com: only grab rcu lock when necessary, per Vlastimil]

References

Affected packages

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.10.6-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}