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CVE-2024-35846
published 2024-05-17

CVE-2024-35846: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: zswap: fix shrinker NULL crash with cgroup_disable=memory Christian reports a NULL…

PriorityP420medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.19%
8.8th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: zswap: fix shrinker NULL crash with cgroup_disable=memory Christian reports a NULL deref in zswap that he bisected down to the zswap shrinker. The issue also cropped up in the bug trackers of libguestfs [1] and the Red Hat bugzilla [2]. The problem is that when memcg is disabled with the boot time flag, the zswap shrinker might get called with sc->memcg == NULL. This is okay in many places, like the lruvec operations. But it crashes in memcg_page_state() - which is only used due to the non-node accounting of cgroup's the zswap memory to begin with. Nhat spotted that the memcg can be NULL in the memcg-disabled case, and I was then able to reproduce the crash locally as well. [1] https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/139 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2275252

Affected

9 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.8.9-1 (forky)linux 6.8.9-1 (forky)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= b5ba474f3f518701249598b35c581b92a3c95b48 < b0fdabc908a7f81d12382c87ca9e46a9c2e14042b0fdabc908a7f81d12382c87ca9e46a9c2e14042
linuxlinux>= b5ba474f3f518701249598b35c581b92a3c95b48 < 682886ec69d22363819a83ddddd5d66cb5c791e1682886ec69d22363819a83ddddd5d66cb5c791e1
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.8.9-16.8.9-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.8.9-16.8.9-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.8.0-40.406.8.0-40.40
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.8 < 6.8.96.8.9

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv6.5MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu6.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.5LOW
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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