CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-38543
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a21fdeea502658e315bd939409b755974f4fb64 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b20d18f475bd17309db640dbe7d7c7ebb5bc2bc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65e528a69cb3ed4a286c45b4afba57461c8b5b33 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2af060d1c18beaec56351cf9c9bcbbc5af341a3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce47e8ead9a72834cc68431d53f8092ce69bebb7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a21fdeea502658e315bd939409b755974f4fb64 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b20d18f475bd17309db640dbe7d7c7ebb5bc2bc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65e528a69cb3ed4a286c45b4afba57461c8b5b33 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2af060d1c18beaec56351cf9c9bcbbc5af341a3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce47e8ead9a72834cc68431d53f8092ce69bebb7 Patch