5.5
CVE-2024-35846
- EPSS 0.03%
- Published 17.05.2024 15:15:21
- Last modified 30.12.2024 17:39:04
- Source 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081f
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: zswap: fix shrinker NULL crash with cgroup_disable=memory Christian reports a NULL deref in zswap that he bisected down to the zswap shrinker. The issue also cropped up in the bug trackers of libguestfs [1] and the Red Hat bugzilla [2]. The problem is that when memcg is disabled with the boot time flag, the zswap shrinker might get called with sc->memcg == NULL. This is okay in many places, like the lruvec operations. But it crashes in memcg_page_state() - which is only used due to the non-node accounting of cgroup's the zswap memory to begin with. Nhat spotted that the memcg can be NULL in the memcg-disabled case, and I was then able to reproduce the crash locally as well. [1] https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/139 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2275252
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.8 < 6.8.9
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.9 Updaterc1
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.9 Updaterc2
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.9 Updaterc3
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.9 Updaterc4
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.9 Updaterc5
| Type | Source | Score | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPSS | FIRST.org | 0.03% | 0.075 |
| Source | Base Score | Exploit Score | Impact Score | Vector string |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nvd@nist.gov | 5.5 | 1.8 | 3.6 |
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.