DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50199
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/swapfile: skip HugeTLB pages for unuse_vma I got a bad pud error and lost a 1GB HugeTLB when calling swapoff. The problem can be reproduced by the following steps: 1. Allocate an anonymous 1GB HugeTLB and some other anonymous memory. 2. Swapout the above anonymous memory. 3. run swapoff and we will get a bad pud error in kernel message: mm/pgtable-generic.c:42: bad pud 00000000743d215d(84000001400000e7) We can tell that pud_clear_bad is called by pud_none_or_clear_bad in unuse_pud_range() by ftrace. And therefore the HugeTLB pages will never be freed because we lost it from page table. We can skip HugeTLB pages for unuse_vma to fix it.
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:11 | linux | 5.10.178-1, 5.10.149-2, 5.10.178-1 |
| Debian:11 | linux-6.1 | 6.1.106-3, 0, * |
| Debian:12 | linux | 6.1.38-2~bpo11+1, 6.1.38-3, 6.1.38-4 |
| Debian:14 | linux | 0, 0 |
| Debian:13 | linux | 0, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- USN-7389-1.json (github-poc)
Timeline
- Nov 8, 2024 CVE Published
- Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated