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CVE-2024-0841

Kernel: hugetlbfs: null pointer dereference in hugetlbfs_fill_super function

Published: 1/28/2024 Last updated: 5/29/2025 Reserved: 1/23/2024

A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the hugetlbfs_fill_super function in the Linux kernel hugetlbfs (HugeTLB pages) functionality. This issue may allow a local user to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

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

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 6.6 Medium CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Opam packages affected (27)

albatross cdrom conf-bpftool conf-libbpf conf-linux-libc-dev core core_unix hvsock mirage-block-unix mm ocaml-probes orun rawlink rawlink-eio rawlink-lwt 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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat < 92cb363d16ac1e41c9764cdb513d0e89a6ff4915
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat < 2.1.2-1601
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat < 7e6d6f27522bcd037856234b720ff607b9c4a09b
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat < c364e7a34c85c2154fb2e47561965d5b5a0b69b1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat n/a

References (11)