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CVE-2024-41055 (GCVE-0-2024-41055)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-29 14:32 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:51
VLAI
Title
mm: prevent derefencing NULL ptr in pfn_section_valid()
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 16:22 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 90ad17575d26874287271127d43ef3c2af876cea , < 0100aeb8a12d51950418e685f879cc80cb8e5982 (git)
Affected: b448de2459b6d62a53892487ab18b7d823ff0529 , < bc17f2377818dca643a74499c3f5333500c90503 (git)
Affected: 68ed9e33324021e9d6b798e9db00ca3093d2012a , < 941e816185661bf2b44b488565d09444ae316509 (git)
Affected: 70064241f2229f7ba7b9599a98f68d9142e81a97 , < 797323d1cf92d09b7a017cfec576d9babf99cde7 (git)
Affected: 5ec8e8ea8b7783fab150cf86404fc38cb4db8800 , < adccdf702b4ea913ded5ff512239e382d7473b63 (git)
Affected: 5ec8e8ea8b7783fab150cf86404fc38cb4db8800 , < 82f0b6f041fad768c28b4ad05a683065412c226e (git)
Affected: 3a01daace71b521563c38bbbf874e14c3e58adb7 (git)
Affected: 5.10.210 , < 5.10.222 (semver)
Affected: 5.15.149 , < 5.15.163 (semver)
Affected: 6.1.76 , < 6.1.100 (semver)
Affected: 6.6.15 , < 6.6.41 (semver)
Affected: 6.7.3 , < 6.8 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.222 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.163 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.100 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.41 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.10 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

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