CVE-2024-42243 — Improper Input Validation in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 96.36%
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/filemap: make MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER acceptable to xarray
Patch series "mm/filemap: Limit page cache size to that supported by
xarray", v2.
Currently, xarray can't support arbitrary page cache size. More details
can be found from the WARN_ON() statement in xas_split_alloc(). In our
test whose code is attached below, we hit the WARN_ON() on ARM64 system
where the base page size is 64KB and huge page size is 512MB. The issue
wa…
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