CVE-2024-50199

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The\nproblem can be reproduced by the following steps:\n\n 1. Allocate an anonymous 1GB HugeTLB and some other anonymous memory.\n 2. Swapout the above anonymous memory.\n 3. run swapoff and we will get a bad pud error in kernel message:\n\n mm/pgtable-generic.c:42: bad pud 00000000743d215d(84000001400000e7)\n\nWe can tell that pud_clear_bad is called by pud_none_or_clear_bad in\nunuse_pud_range() by ftrace. And therefore the HugeTLB pages will never\nbe freed because we lost it from page table. We can skip HugeTLB pages\nfor unuse_vma to fix it."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: mm/swapfile: omitir p\u00e1ginas HugeTLB para unuse_vma Obtuve un error pud incorrecto y perd\u00ed un HugeTLB de 1 GB al llamar a swapoff. El problema se puede reproducir mediante los siguientes pasos: 1. Asignar un HugeTLB an\u00f3nimo de 1 GB y otra memoria an\u00f3nima. 2. Intercambiar la memoria an\u00f3nima anterior. 3. Ejecutar swapoff y obtendremos un error pud incorrecto en el mensaje del kernel: mm/pgtable-generic.c:42: bad pud 00000000743d215d(84000001400000e7) Podemos decir que pud_clear_bad es llamado por pud_none_or_clear_bad en unuse_pud_range() por ftrace. Y por lo tanto, las p\u00e1ginas HugeTLB nunca se liberar\u00e1n porque las perdimos de la tabla de p\u00e1ginas. Podemos omitir las p\u00e1ginas HugeTLB para unuse_vma para solucionarlo."}], "id": "CVE-2024-50199", "lastModified": "2026-06-17T08:03:51.290", "metrics": {"cvssMetricV31": [{"cvssData": {"attackComplexity": "LOW", "attackVector": "LOCAL", "availabilityImpact": "HIGH", "baseScore": 5.5, "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "confidentialityImpact": "NONE", "integrityImpact": "NONE", "privilegesRequired": "LOW", "scope": "UNCHANGED", "userInteraction": "NONE", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "version": "3.1"}, "exploitabilityScore": 1.8, "impactScore": 3.6, "source": "nvd@nist.gov", "type": "Primary"}]}, "published": "2024-11-08T06:15:16.527", "references": [{"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "tags": ["Patch"], "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/417d5838ca73c6331ae2fe692fab6c25c00d9a0b"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "tags": ["Patch"], "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ec0fe3756f941f42f8c57156b8bdf2877b2ebaf"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "tags": ["Patch"], "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7528c4fb1237512ee18049f852f014eba80bbe8d"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "tags": ["Patch"], "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba7f982cdb37ff5a7739dec85d7325ea66fc1496"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "tags": ["Patch"], "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bed2b9037806c62166a0ef9a559a1e7e3e1275b8"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "tags": ["Patch"], "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e41710f5a61aca9d6baaa8f53908a927dd9e7aa7"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "tags": ["Patch"], "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb66a833cdd2f7302ee05d05e0fa12a2ca32eb87"}, {"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html"}, {"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html"}], "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "vulnStatus": "Modified", "weaknesses": [{"description": [{"lang": "en", "value": "NVD-CWE-noinfo"}], "source": "nvd@nist.gov", "type": "Primary"}]}

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