FKIE_CVE-2024-41055
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-07-29 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:47
Severity
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * |
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"lastModified": "2026-06-17T07:47:10.853",
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