CVE-2024-40917

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 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...

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...

Linux Kernel 2.6.18 - 'move_pages()' Information Leak

/ sieve because the Linux kernel leaks like one, get it? Bug NOT discovered by Marcus Meissner of SuSE security This bug was discovered by Ramon de Carvalho Valle in September of 2009 The bug was found via fuzzing, and on Sept 24th I was sent a POC DoS for the bug but had forgotten about it until...