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CVE-2024-0443

Kernel: blkio memory leakage due to blkcg and some blkgs are not freed after they are made offline.

Published: 1/11/2024 Last updated: 11/7/2025 Reserved: 1/11/2024

A flaw was found in the blkgs destruction path in block/blk-cgroup.c in the Linux kernel, leading to a cgroup blkio memory leakage problem. When a cgroup is being destroyed, cgroup_rstat_flush() is only called at css_release_work_fn(), which is called when the blkcg reference count reaches 0. This circular dependency will prevent blkcg and some blkgs from being freed after they are made offline. This issue may allow an attacker with a local access to cause system instability, such as an out of memory error.

CNA assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 5.5 Medium CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Opam packages affected (29)

albatross cdrom conf-bpftool conf-libbpf conf-linux-libc-dev core core_unix hvsock mirage-block-unix mm ocaml-probes ortools_solvers orun rawlink rawlink-eio rawlink-lwt restricted shell solo5 solo5-bindings-hvt solo5-bindings-spt solo5-cross-aarch64 solo5-kernel-ukvm tracy-client tuntap uring vhd-format vhd-format-lwt xapi-stdext-unix

Products affected (8)

Product Vendor Version
< 565d2c15b6c36c3250e694f7b9a86229c1787be5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat < 69a79ada8eb034ce016b5b78fb7d08d8687223de
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat 6.8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat < 6.8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support Red Hat <= 6.12.*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat <= 6.16.*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat <= *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat n/a

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