CVE-2024-39477CWE-770denial-of-service

CVE-2024-39477

High · published July 5, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

mm/hugetlb: do not call vma_add_reservation upon ENOMEM

sysbot reported a splat [1] on __unmap_hugepage_range(). This is because

vma_needs_reservation() can return -ENOMEM if

allocate_file_region_entries() fails to allocate the file_region struct

for the reservation.

Check for that and do not call vma_add_reservation() if that is the case,

otherwise region_abort() and region_del() will see that we do not have any

file_regions.

If we detect that vma_needs_reservation() returned -ENOMEM, we clear the

hugetlb_restore_reserve flag as if this reservation was still consumed, so

free_huge_folio() will not increment the resv count.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/T/#ma5983bc1ab18a54910da83416b3f89f3c7ee43aa

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00189 · 8.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2024-07-05T11:15Z
Affected products (3)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.9, < 6.9.56.9.5
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 JUL 06:55Z
    mm/hugetlb: do not call vma_add_reservation upon ENOMEM
    cvelistv5