CVE-2024-41932

CVE-2024-41932

Medium · published January 11, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

sched: fix warning in sched_setaffinity

Commit 8f9ea86fdf99b added some logic to sched_setaffinity that included

a WARN when a per-task affinity assignment races with a cpuset update.

Specifically, we can have a race where a cpuset update results in the

task affinity no longer being a subset of the cpuset. That's fine; we

have a fallback to instead use the cpuset mask. However, we have a WARN

set up that will trigger if the cpuset mask has no overlap at all with

the requested task affinity. This shouldn't be a warning condition; its

trivial to create this condition.

Reproduced the warning by the following setup:

- $PID inside a cpuset cgroup

- another thread repeatedly switching the cpuset cpus from 1-2 to just 1

- another thread repeatedly setting the $PID affinity (via taskset) to 2

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00223 · 12.2th percentile
Published
2025-01-11T18:15Z
Affected products (3)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.12.56.12.5
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 JAN 12:25Z
    sched: fix warning in sched_setaffinity
    cvelistv5