CVE-2024-47668 — Race Condition in Linux
Severity
4.7MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.1OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 99.09%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 9
Latest updateAug 14
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
lib/generic-radix-tree.c: Fix rare race in __genradix_ptr_alloc()
If we need to increase the tree depth, allocate a new node, and then
race with another thread that increased the tree depth before us, we'll
still have a preallocated node that might be used later.
If we then use that node for a new non-root node, it'll still have a
pointer to the old root instead of being zeroed - fix this by zeroing it
in the cmpxchg failure …
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxba20ba2e3743bac786dff777954c11930256075e — 0f27f4f445390cb7f73d4209cb2bf32834dc53da+7