CVE-2024-44973

This CVE (CVE-2024-44973) concerns the Linux kernel SLUB allocator. The root cause is that freeing of kfence objects was moved out of do_slab_free but missed a spot in __kmem_cache_free_bulk, leading to a crash chain involving skbuff_head_cache and slab_err (mm/slub.c). The impact described is a ...