CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-43888
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-08-26
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: list_lru: fix UAF for memory cgroup
The mem_cgroup_from_slab_obj() is supposed to be called under rcu lock or
cgroup_mutex or others which could prevent returned memcg from being
freed. Fix it by adding missing rcu read lock.
Found by code inspection.
[[email protected]: only grab rcu lock when necessary, per Vlastimil]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.8 < 6.10.5)
• linux linux kernel 6.11
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness