CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-38543

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-06-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-06-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lib/test_hmm.c: handle src_pfns and dst_pfns allocation failure The kcalloc() in dmirror_device_evict_chunk() will return null if the physical memory has run out. As a result, if src_pfns or dst_pfns is dereferenced, the null pointer dereference bug will happen. Moreover, the device is going away. If the kcalloc() fails, the pages mapping a chunk could not be evicted. So add a __GFP_NOFAIL flag in kcalloc(). Finally, as there is no need to have physically contiguous memory, Switch kcalloc() to kvcalloc() in order to avoid failing allocations.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.8 < 6.1.93) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.33) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.8.12) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.9 < 6.9.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References