CVE-2024-47668

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Use-After-Free in Generic Radix Tree Pointer Allocation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 path.

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 5.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-362
Status published
Products (24)
linux/Kernel 5.1.0 - 5.4.284linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.167linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.110linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.226linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.51linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.10.10linux
Linux/Linux < 5.1
Linux/Linux 5.1
Linux/Linux 5.10.226 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.167 - 5.15.*
... and 14 more
Published Oct 09, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026