Tracker / CVE-2024-46838
CVE-2024-46838
Medium 5.5
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: userfaultfd: don't BUG_ON() if khugepaged yanks our page table Since khugepaged was changed to allow retracting page tables in file mappings without holding the mmap lock, these BUG_ON()s are wrong - get rid of them. We could also remove the preceding "if (unlikely(...))" block, but then we could reach pte_offset_map_lock() with transhuge pages not just for file mappings but also for anonymous mappings - which would probably be fine but I think is not necessarily expected.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.6 → 6.6.51 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.10.10 |
Analysis
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