CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-26621

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-03-02 Modified 2026-08-04 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-03-02
Last modified
2026-08-04
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
8.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: huge_memory: don't force huge page alignment on 32 bit commit efa7df3e3bb5 ("mm: align larger anonymous mappings on THP boundaries") caused two issues [1] [2] reported on 32 bit system or compat userspace. It doesn't make too much sense to force huge page alignment on 32 bit system due to the constrained virtual address space. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAJuCfpHXLdQy1a2B6xN2d7quTYwg2OoZseYPZTRpU0eHHKD-sQ@mail.gmail.com/

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.18 < 6.1.81) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.46) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.7.6) • linux linux kernel 6.8

References