CVE-2024-44959

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracefs: Use generic inode RCU for synchronizing freeing With structure layout randomization enabled for 'struct inode' we need to avoid overlapping any of the RCU-used / initialized-only-once members, e.g. ilru or isblist to not...

CVE-2024-44959

The CVE-2024-44959 entry concerns the Linux kernel tracefs component. It describes a root cause in the in-kernel memory reclaim path where structure layout randomization of struct inode can cause overlapping or misused RCU fields during freeing, potentially triggering list corruption (list_del) a...

CVE-2024-44959 tracefs: Use generic inode RCU for synchronizing freeing

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracefs: Use generic inode RCU for synchronizing freeing With structure layout randomization enabled for 'struct inode' we need to avoid overlapping any of the RCU-used / initialized-only-once members, e.g. ilru or isblist to not...