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FKIE_CVE-2024-46838

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-09-27 13:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:56

Severity

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: userfaultfd: don't BUG_ON() if khugepaged yanks our page table Since khugepaged was changed to allow retracting page tables in file mappings without holding the mmap lock, these BUG_ON()s are wrong - get rid of them. We could also remove the preceding "if (unlikely(...))" block, but then we could reach pte_offset_map_lock() with transhuge pages not just for file mappings but also for anonymous mappings - which would probably be fine but I think is not necessarily expected.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4828d207dc5161dc7ddf9a4f6dcfd80c7dd7d20a	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a594acc12d5954cdc71d4450a386748bf3d136a	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db978287e908d48b209e374b00d847b2d785e0a9	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	6.11
linux	linux_kernel	6.11
linux	linux_kernel	6.11
linux	linux_kernel	6.11
linux	linux_kernel	6.11
linux	linux_kernel	6.11

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CVE-2024-46838 (GCVE-0-2024-46838)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-27 12:39 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:37

Title

userfaultfd: don't BUG_ON() if khugepaged yanks our page table

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-29 14:03 UTC

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a594acc12d5954cd…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db978287e908d48b2…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4828d207dc5161dc7…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 1d65b771bc08cd054cf6d3766a72e113dc46d62f , < 4a594acc12d5954cdc71d4450a386748bf3d136a (git) Affected: 1d65b771bc08cd054cf6d3766a72e113dc46d62f , < db978287e908d48b209e374b00d847b2d785e0a9 (git) Affected: 1d65b771bc08cd054cf6d3766a72e113dc46d62f , < 4828d207dc5161dc7ddf9a4f6dcfd80c7dd7d20a (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.6 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.6 (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.51 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.10.10 , ≤ 6.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.11 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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