vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-43888: kernel: mm: list_lru: fix UAF for memory cgroup (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 26, 2024
Added
Dec 5, 2024
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

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

mm: list_lru: fix UAF for memory cgroup

The mem_cgroup_from_slab_obj() is supposed to be called under rcu lock or
cgroup_mutex or others which could prevent returned memcg from being
freed. Fix it by adding missing rcu read lock.

Found by code inspection.

[[email protected]: only grab rcu lock when necessary, per Vlastimil]

Solutions

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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