cve-2024-35846
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-17 14:47
Modified
2024-11-05 09:23
Severity ?
Summary
mm: zswap: fix shrinker NULL crash with cgroup_disable=memory
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/682886ec69d22363819a83ddddd5d66cb5c791e1
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0fdabc908a7f81d12382c87ca9e46a9c2e14042
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: 6.8
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