⚠ Exploited in the wild
Exploitation observed in the wild. Not yet on CISA KEV.
CVE-2024-42252 — Reachable Assertion in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.8OSV6.7OSV6.3OSV4.7
EPSS
0.0%
top 99.46%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
Exploited in wild
Active exploitation observed
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 8
Latest updateMay 28
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
closures: Change BUG_ON() to WARN_ON()
If a BUG_ON() can be hit in the wild, it shouldn't be a BUG_ON()
For reference, this has popped up once in the CI, and we'll need more
info to debug it:
03240 ------------[ cut here ]------------
03240 kernel BUG at lib/closure.c:21!
03240 kernel BUG at lib/closure.c:21!
03240 Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
03240 Modules linked in:
03240 CPU: 15 PID: 40534 Comm: k…
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