CVE-2024-36882 Affecting kernel-64kb-devel package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.14.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-SLES156-KERNEL64KBDEVEL-7552386
  • published 23 Jul 2024
  • disclosed 22 Jul 2024

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-64kb-devel to version 6.4.0-150600.23.14.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-64kb-devel package and not the kernel-64kb-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

mm: use memalloc_nofs_save() in page_cache_ra_order()

See commit f2c817bed58d ("mm: use memalloc_nofs_save in readahead path"), ensure that page_cache_ra_order() do not attempt to reclaim file-backed pages too, or it leads to a deadlock, found issue when test ext4 large folio.

INFO: task DataXceiver for:7494 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. task:DataXceiver for state:D stack:0 pid:7494 ppid:1 flags:0x00000200 Call trace: __switch_to+0x14c/0x240 __schedule+0x82c/0xdd0 schedule+0x58/0xf0 io_schedule+0x24/0xa0 __folio_lock+0x130/0x300 migrate_pages_batch+0x378/0x918 migrate_pages+0x350/0x700 compact_zone+0x63c/0xb38 compact_zone_order+0xc0/0x118 try_to_compact_pages+0xb0/0x280 __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x98/0x248 __alloc_pages+0x510/0x1110 alloc_pages+0x9c/0x130 folio_alloc+0x20/0x78 filemap_alloc_folio+0x8c/0x1b0 page_cache_ra_order+0x174/0x308 ondemand_readahead+0x1c8/0x2b8 page_cache_async_ra+0x68/0xb8 filemap_readahead.isra.0+0x64/0xa8 filemap_get_pages+0x3fc/0x5b0 filemap_splice_read+0xf4/0x280 ext4_file_splice_read+0x2c/0x48 [ext4] vfs_splice_read.part.0+0xa8/0x118 splice_direct_to_actor+0xbc/0x288 do_splice_direct+0x9c/0x108 do_sendfile+0x328/0x468 __arm64_sys_sendfile64+0x8c/0x148 invoke_syscall+0x4c/0x118 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xf0 do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38 el0_svc+0x4c/0x1f8 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc0/0xc8 el0t_64_sync+0x188/0x190

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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SUSE

5.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

5.5 medium