CVE-2024-45021CWE-476

CVE-2024-45021

High · published September 11, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

memcg_write_event_control(): fix a user-triggerable oops

we are *not* guaranteed that anything past the terminating NUL

is mapped (let alone initialized with anything sane).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00255 · 16.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2024-09-11T20:15Z
Affected products (10)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 2.6.34, < 4.19.3214.19.321
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.20, < 5.4.2835.4.283
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.2255.10.225
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1665.15.166
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1076.1.107
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.486.6.48
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.10.76.10.7
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (10)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 SEP 15:13Z
    memcg_write_event_control(): fix a user-triggerable oops
    cvelistv5