CVE-2024-40917

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2025-01-17 13:56:48+00:00| published-proof-of-concept| https://t.me/DarkWebInformerCVEAlerts/2126...

CVE-2024-40917 memblock: make memblock_set_node() also warn about use of MAX_NUMNODES

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memblock: make memblocksetnode also warn about use of MAXNUMNODES On an old x86 system with SRAT just covering space above 4Gb: ACPI: SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 mem 0x100000000-0xfffffffff hotplug the commit referenced below leads to thi...

CVE-2024-40917

CVE-2024-40917 affects the Linux kernel memory management (memblock) related to NUMA/node handling. The issue stems from memblock_validate_numa_coverage() allowing a NUMA_NO_NODE condition and memblock_alloc_range_nid() warning about MAX_NUMNODES, leading to a NULL dereference in memmap_init() wh...