CVE-2024-49573 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNELDEVEL-8628704
  • published15 Jan 2025
  • disclosed11 Jan 2025

Introduced: 11 Jan 2025

CVE-2024-49573  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-devel package and not the kernel-devel package as distributed by RHEL.

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

sched/fair: Fix NEXT_BUDDY

Adam reports that enabling NEXT_BUDDY insta triggers a WARN in pick_next_entity().

Moving clear_buddies() up before the delayed dequeue bits ensures no ->next buddy becomes delayed. Further ensure no new ->next buddy ever starts as delayed.