CVE-2024-53109

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.6-6.6.62 - Denial of Service via Incorrect vma_iter_prealloc Argument

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nommu: pass NULL argument to vma_iter_prealloc() When deleting a vma entry from a maple tree, it has to pass NULL to vma_iter_prealloc() in order to calculate internal state of the tree, but it passed a wrong argument. As a result, nommu kernels crashed upon accessing a vma iterator, such as acct_collect() reading the size of vma entries after do_munmap(). This commit fixes this issue by passing a right argument to the preallocation call.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 14.3%
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 - 6.6.63linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.11.10linux
Linux/Linux < 6.6
Linux/Linux 6.11.10 - 6.11.*
Linux/Linux 6.12
Linux/Linux 6.6
Linux/Linux 6.6.63 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux b5df09226450165c434084d346fcb6d4858b0d52 - 247d720b2c5d22f7281437fd6054a138256986ba
Linux/Linux b5df09226450165c434084d346fcb6d4858b0d52 - 8bbf0ab631cdf1dade6745f137cff98751e6ced7
Linux/Linux b5df09226450165c434084d346fcb6d4858b0d52 - aceaf33b7666b72dfb86e0aa977be81e3bcbc727
... and 2 more
Published Dec 02, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026