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DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42251

MediumCVSS 5.5 / 10
Published Aug 8, 2024·Last modified Jun 15, 2026
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No affected components available

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: page_ref: remove folio_try_get_rcu() The below bug was reported on a non-SMP kernel: [ 275.267158][ T4335] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 275.267949][ T4335] kernel BUG at include/linux/page_ref.h:275! [ 275.268526][ T4335] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] KASAN PTI [ 275.269001][ T4335] CPU: 0 PID: 4335 Comm: trinity-c3 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc4-00061-gefa7df3e3bb5 #1 [ 275.269787][ T4335] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014 [ 275.270679][ T4335] RIP: 0010:try_get_folio (include/linux/page_ref.h:275 (discriminator 3) mm/gup.c:79 (discriminator 3)) [ 275.272813][ T4335] RSP: 0018:ffffc90005dcf650 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 275.273346][ T4335] RAX: 0000000000000246 RBX: ffffea00066e0000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 275.274032][ T4335] RDX: fffff94000cdc007 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffea00066e0034 [ 275.274719][ T4335] RBP: ffffea00066e0000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: fffff94000cdc006 [ 275.275404][ T4335] R10: ffffea00066e0037 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000136 [ 275.276106][ T4335] R13: ffffea00066e0034 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffffea00066e0008 [ 275.276790][ T4335] FS: 00007fa2f9b61740(0000) GS:ffffffff89d0d000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 275.277570][ T4335] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 275.278143][ T4335] CR2: 00007fa2f6c00000 CR3: 0000000134b04000 CR4: 00000000000406f0 [ 275.278833][ T4335] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 275.279521][ T4335] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 275.280201][ T4335] Call Trace: [ 275.280499][ T4335] <TASK> [ 275.280751][ T4335] ? die (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:421 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:434 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:447) [ 275.281087][ T4335] ? do_trap (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:112 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:153) [ 275.281463][ T4335] ? try_get_folio (include/linux/page_ref.h:275 (discriminator 3) mm/gup.c:79 (discriminator 3)) [ 275.281884][ T4335] ? try_get_folio (include/linux/page_ref.h:275 (discriminator 3) mm/gup.c:79 (discriminator 3)) [ 275.282300][ T4335] ? do_error_trap (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:174) [ 275.282711][ T4335] ? try_get_folio (include/linux/page_ref.h:275 (discriminator 3) mm/gup.c:79 (discriminator 3)) [ 275.283129][ T4335] ? handle_invalid_op (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:212) [ 275.283561][ T4335] ? try_get_folio (include/linux/page_ref.h:275 (discriminator 3) mm/gup.c:79 (discriminator 3)) [ 275.283990][ T4335] ? exc_invalid_op (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:264) [ 275.284415][ T4335] ? asm_exc_invalid_op (arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:568) [ 275.284859][ T4335] ? try_get_folio (include/linux/page_ref.h:275 (discriminator 3) mm/gup.c:79 (discriminator 3)) [ 275.285278][ T4335] try_grab_folio (mm/gup.c:148) [ 275.285684][ T4335] __get_user_pages (mm/gup.c:1297 (discriminator 1)) [ 275.286111][ T4335] ? __pfx___get_user_pages (mm/gup.c:1188) [ 275.286579][ T4335] ? __pfx_validate_chain (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3825) [ 275.287034][ T4335] ? mark_lock (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4656 (discriminator 1)) [ 275.287416][ T4335] __gup_longterm_locked (mm/gup.c:1509 mm/gup.c:2209) [ 275.288192][ T4335] ? __pfx___gup_longterm_locked (mm/gup.c:2204) [ 275.288697][ T4335] ? __pfx_lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5722) [ 275.289135][ T4335] ? __pfx___might_resched (kernel/sched/core.c:10106) [ 275.289595][ T4335] pin_user_pages_remote (mm/gup.c:3350) [ 275.290041][ T4335] ? __pfx_pin_user_pages_remote (mm/gup.c:3350) [ 275.290545][ T4335] ? find_held_lock (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5244 (discriminator 1)) [ 275.290961][ T4335] ? mm_access (kernel/fork.c:1573) [ 275.291353][ T4335] process_vm_rw_single_vec+0x142/0x360 [ 275.291900][ T4335] ? __pfx_process_vm_rw_single_vec+0x10/0x10 [ 275.292471][ T4335] ? mm_access (kernel/fork.c:1573) [ 275.292859][ T4335] process_vm_rw_core+0x272/0x4e0 [ 275.293384][ T4335] ? hlock_class (a ---truncated---

Risk Scores
Base Score
5.5

The vulnerability requires local access to the device to be exploited. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker needs basic access or low-level privileges. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence
5.1

Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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