CVE-2024-46838

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.6-6.6.50 - Denial of Service via userfaultfd Page Table Retraction

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: userfaultfd: don't BUG_ON() if khugepaged yanks our page table Since khugepaged was changed to allow retracting page tables in file mappings without holding the mmap lock, these BUG_ON()s are wrong - get rid of them. We could also remove the preceding "if (unlikely(...))" block, but then we could reach pte_offset_map_lock() with transhuge pages not just for file mappings but also for anonymous mappings - which would probably be fine but I think is not necessarily expected.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 14.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (12)
linux/Kernel 6.6.0 - 6.6.51linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.10.10linux
Linux/Linux < 6.6
Linux/Linux 1d65b771bc08cd054cf6d3766a72e113dc46d62f - 4828d207dc5161dc7ddf9a4f6dcfd80c7dd7d20a
Linux/Linux 1d65b771bc08cd054cf6d3766a72e113dc46d62f - 4a594acc12d5954cdc71d4450a386748bf3d136a
Linux/Linux 1d65b771bc08cd054cf6d3766a72e113dc46d62f - db978287e908d48b209e374b00d847b2d785e0a9
Linux/Linux 6.10.10 - 6.10.*
Linux/Linux 6.11
Linux/Linux 6.6
Linux/Linux 6.6.51 - 6.6.*
... and 2 more
Published Sep 27, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026