Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: mm/vmscan: fixed a bug that called wakeupkswapd with an incorrect zone index. When numa balancing is enabled, and a numa system is running where a numa node does not have its own local memory, causing it to have no managed...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmscan: fix a bug calling wakeupkswapd with a wrong zone index CVE-2024-26783 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: Fix potential uninit-value access in ip6makeskb...

kernel: mm/vmscan: fix a bug calling wakeup_kswapd() with a wrong zone index

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's memory management subsystem. The wakeupkswapd function was called with an incorrect zone index. This error could disrupt the proper functioning of memory management, potentially leading to system instability or performance issues...