CVE-2024-50229 nilfs2: fix potential deadlock with newly created symlinks

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix potential deadlock with newly created symlinks Syzbot reported that pagesymlink, called by nilfssymlink, triggers memory reclamation involving the filesystem layer, which can result in circular lock dependencies among...

CVE-2024-49964 mm/hugetlb: fix memfd_pin_folios free_huge_pages leak

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: fix memfdpinfolios freehugepages leak memfdpinfolios followed by unpinfolios fails to restore freehugepages if the pages were not already faulted in, because the folio refcount for pages created by memfdallocfolio nev...

CVE-2024-49964

The CVE-2024-49964 issue affects the Linux kernel’s hugetlb path: memfd_pin_folios + unpin_folios could fail to restore free_huge_pages for pages not faulted in due to folio refcounts not reaching zero. The root cause was that folio_ref_unfreeze/folio_try_get/hugetlb_add_to_page_cache interaction...

SUSE CVE-2024-49856

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/sgx: Fix deadlock in SGX NUMA node search When the current node doesn't have an EPC section configured by firmware and all other EPC sections are used up, CPU can get stuck inside the while loop that looks for an available EP...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-49856

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/sgx: Fix deadlock in SGX NUMA node search When the current node doesn't have an EPC section configured by firmware and all other EPC sections are used up, CPU can get stuck inside the while loop that looks for an available EP...

CVE-2024-47669

CVE-2024-47669 involves the Linux kernel nilfs2 write path. After a694291a6211, two error-path flaws could leave writeback flags uncleared and inodes with NILFS_I_COLLECTED set, causing writeback hangs or potential data non-write during checkpointing. The fix applies a uniform call to nilfs_segct...

kernel: mm/filemap: make MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER acceptable to xarray

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/filemap: make MAXPAGECACHEORDER acceptable to xarray Patch series "mm/filemap: Limit page cache size to that supported by xarray", v2. Currently, xarray can't support arbitrary page cache size. More details can be found from t...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

kernel: mm/filemap: make MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER acceptable to xarray

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/filemap: make MAXPAGECACHEORDER acceptable to xarray Patch series "mm/filemap: Limit page cache size to that supported by xarray", v2. Currently, xarray can't support arbitrary page cache size. More details can be found from t...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available fo...

kernel: mm/filemap: skip to create PMD-sized page cache if needed

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel related to how large page caching is handled, particularly for AMD64 architectures. The issue stems from the xarray data structure's inability to support PMD-sized page caches when the base page size is larger than MAXPAGECACHEORDER. The particular...

kernel: mm/shmem: disable PMD-sized page cache if needed

A denial of service vulnerability was found in the Linux Kernel. In architectures such as ARM64 where the base page size is 64KB, a 512MB page cache could lead to a software crash...

CVE-2024-42317

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugememory: avoid PMD-size page cache if needed xarray can't support arbitrary page cache size. the largest and supported page cache size is defined as MAXPAGECACHEORDER by commit 099d90642a71 "mm/filemap: make MAXPAGECACHEORD...

SUSE CVE-2024-42317

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugememory: avoid PMD-size page cache if needed xarray can't support arbitrary page cache size. the largest and supported page cache size is defined as MAXPAGECACHEORDER by commit 099d90642a71 "mm/filemap: make MAXPAGECACHEORD...

CVE-2024-42317

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugememory: avoid PMD-size page cache if needed xarray can't support arbitrary page cache size. the largest and supported page cache size is defined as MAXPAGECACHEORDER by commit 099d90642a71 "mm/filemap: make MAXPAGECACHEORD...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42317

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugememory: avoid PMD-size page cache if needed xarray can't support arbitrary page cache size. the largest and supported page cache size is defined as MAXPAGECACHEORDER by commit 099d90642a71 "mm/filemap: make MAXPAGECACHEORD...

AZL-62726 CVE-2024-42317 affecting package kernel 6.6.126.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugememory: avoid PMD-size page cache if needed xarray can't support arbitrary page cache size. the largest and supported page cache size is defined as MAXPAGECACHEORDER by commit 099d90642a71 "mm/filemap: make MAXPAGECACHEORD...

CVE-2024-42317

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugememory: avoid PMD-size page cache if needed xarray can't support arbitrary page cache size. the largest and supported page cache size is defined as MAXPAGECACHEORDER by commit 099d90642a71 "mm/filemap: make MAXPAGECACHEORD...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42317

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugememory: avoid PMD-size page cache if needed xarray can't support arbitrary page cache size. the largest and supported page cache size is defined as MAXPAGECACHEORDER by commit 099d90642a71 "mm/filemap: make MAXPAGECACHEORD...

CVE-2024-42317 mm/huge_memory: avoid PMD-size page cache if needed

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugememory: avoid PMD-size page cache if needed xarray can't support arbitrary page cache size. the largest and supported page cache size is defined as MAXPAGECACHEORDER by commit 099d90642a71 "mm/filemap: make MAXPAGECACHEORD...