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CVE-2024-0841

Kernel: hugetlbfs: null pointer dereference in hugetlbfs_fill_super function

Published: 1/28/2024 Last updated: 11/6/2025 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 (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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat < 81d4dd05c412ba04f9f6b85b718e6da833be290c
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat <= 6.12.*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat <= 6.15.*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat <= 6.16.*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat <= *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat < 088bde862f8d3d0fc52e40e66a0484a246837087
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat < 182a4b7c731e95c08cb47f14b87a272b6ab2b2da
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat <= 6.6.*

References (22)