CVE-2023-52940

mm: multi-gen LRU: fix crash during cgroup migration

published March 27, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm: multi-gen LRU: fix crash during cgroup migration

lru_gen_migrate_mm() assumes lru_gen_add_mm() runs prior to itself. This

isn't true for the following scenario:

CPU 1 CPU 2

clone()

cgroup_can_fork()

cgroup_procs_write()

cgroup_post_fork()

task_lock()

lru_gen_migrate_mm()

task_unlock()

task_lock()

lru_gen_add_mm()

task_unlock()

And when the above happens, kernel crashes because of linked list

corruption (mm_struct->lru_gen.list).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00209 · 10.6th percentile
Published
2025-03-27T16:37Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAR 16:37Z
    mm: multi-gen LRU: fix crash during cgroup migration
    cvelistv5