UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53109

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nommu: pass NULL argument to vmaiterprealloc When deleting a vma entry from a maple tree, it has to pass NULL to vmaiterprealloc in order to calculate internal state of the tree, but it passed a wrong argument. As a result, nommu...

CVE-2024-53109

The CVE-2024-53109 issue affects the Linux kernel nommu path: when deleting a vma entry from a maple tree, the code passed a NULL argument to vma_iter_prealloc() incorrectly, leading to crashes when accessing a vma iterator (e.g., acct_collect() reading vma sizes after do_munmap()). A patch fixes...