CVE-2024-42241 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 90.62%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 7
Latest updateDec 12
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/shmem: disable PMD-sized page cache if needed
For shmem files, it's possible that PMD-sized page cache can't be
supported by xarray. For example, 512MB page cache on ARM64 when the base
page size is 64KB can't be supported by xarray. It leads to errors as the
following messages indicate when this sort of xarray entry is split.
WARNING: CPU: 34 PID: 7578 at lib/xarray.c:1025 xas_split_alloc+0xf8/0x128
Modules linked in: bin…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6