CVE-2024-42243Improper Input Validation in Linux

Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 96.36%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
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

Affected Packages7 packages

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
Linux kernel (GKE) vulnerabilities2024-12-12
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Low Latency) vulnerabilities2024-11-19
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Linux kernel vulnerabilities2024-11-15
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities2024-11-14
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities2024-11-13
CVE-2024-42243 — Improper Input Validation in Linux | cvebase