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DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50199

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50199 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

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

CVSS 3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:11linux5.10.178-1, 5.10.149-2, 5.10.178-1
Debian:11linux-6.16.1.106-3, 0, *
Debian:12linux6.1.38-2~bpo11+1, 6.1.38-3, 6.1.38-4
Debian:14linux0, 0
Debian:13linux0, 0

Exploit Intelligence

Timeline

  • Nov 8, 2024 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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