CVE-2024-35985 sched/eevdf: Prevent vlag from going out of bounds in reweight_eevdf()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/eevdf: Prevent vlag from going out of bounds in reweighteevdf It was possible to have pickeevdf return NULL, which then causes a NULL-deref. This turned out to be due to entityeligible returning falsely negative because of ...

CVE-2024-35985 sched/eevdf: Prevent vlag from going out of bounds in reweight_eevdf()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/eevdf: Prevent vlag from going out of bounds in reweighteevdf It was possible to have pickeevdf return NULL, which then causes a NULL-deref. This turned out to be due to entityeligible returning falsely negative because of ...

CVE-2024-35985

CVE-2024-35985 concerns the Linux kernel vulnerability where the eevdf scheduler could yield an out-of-bounds vlag and a NULL-deref in certain edge cases. The connected Astra/Nessus documents reiterate that reweight_eevdf() could compute vlag beyond the intended bound, since the vlag is used with...