vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2023-52939: kernel: mm: memcg: fix NULL pointer in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath() (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Mar 27, 2025 | Jul 9, 2025 | Nov 14, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 27, 2025
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Nov 14, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: memcg: fix NULL pointer in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath()
As commit 18365225f044 ("hwpoison, memcg: forcibly uncharge LRU pages"),
hwpoison will forcibly uncharg a LRU hwpoisoned page, the folio_memcg
could be NULl, then, mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath() could
occurs a NULL pointer dereference, let's do not record the foreign
writebacks for folio memcg is null in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty() to
fix it.
Solutions
no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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