CVE-2024-50199 Affecting kernel-tools package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELTOOLS-8405975
- published 26 Nov 2024
- disclosed 8 Nov 2024
How to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-tools.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools package and not the kernel-tools package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/swapfile: skip HugeTLB pages for unuse_vma
I got a bad pud error and lost a 1GB HugeTLB when calling swapoff. The problem can be reproduced by the following steps:
- Allocate an anonymous 1GB HugeTLB and some other anonymous memory.
- Swapout the above anonymous memory.
- run swapoff and we will get a bad pud error in kernel message:
mm/pgtable-generic.c:42: bad pud 00000000743d215d(84000001400000e7)
We can tell that pud_clear_bad is called by pud_none_or_clear_bad in unuse_pud_range() by ftrace. And therefore the HugeTLB pages will never be freed because we lost it from page table. We can skip HugeTLB pages for unuse_vma to fix it.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50199
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/417d5838ca73c6331ae2fe692fab6c25c00d9a0b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ec0fe3756f941f42f8c57156b8bdf2877b2ebaf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7528c4fb1237512ee18049f852f014eba80bbe8d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bed2b9037806c62166a0ef9a559a1e7e3e1275b8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e41710f5a61aca9d6baaa8f53908a927dd9e7aa7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb66a833cdd2f7302ee05d05e0fa12a2ca32eb87
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba7f982cdb37ff5a7739dec85d7325ea66fc1496