CVE-2024-26602

sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier

published February 24, 2024

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
23.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier

On some systems, sys_membarrier can be very expensive, causing overall

slowdowns for everything. So put a lock on the path in order to

serialize the accesses to prevent the ability for this to be called at

too high of a frequency and saturate the machine.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00318 · 23.6th percentile
Published
2024-02-24T14:56Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 FEB 14:56Z
    sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier
    cvelistv5