Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: In the mm module, a NULL pointer dereference was addressed in the allocpagesbulknoprof function. A NULL pointer dereference occurred in allocpagesbulknoprof when the task was migrated between different CPU sets. This happened whe...

kernel: mm: fix NULL pointer dereference in alloc_pages_bulk_noprof

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's memory management subsystem. A local user can exploit this vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service DoS by crashing the system. When a task is migrated between processor groups cpusets concurrently during memory page allocation, a race condition can leave ...

AZL-54188 CVE-2024-53113 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.176.3-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: fix NULL pointer dereference in allocpagesbulknoprof We triggered a NULL pointer dereference for ac.preferredzoneref-zone in allocpagesbulknoprof when the task is migrated between cpusets. When cpuset is enabled, in...