CVE-2024-47674

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 67
Modified
Published: 15 Oct 2024, 10:48
Last modified:11 May 2026, 20:38

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
22/100
CVSS Score
5.5 MEDIUM
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.01% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

15 Oct 2024, 10:48
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
11 May 2026, 20:38
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: avoid leaving partial pfn mappings around in error case As Jann points out, PFN mappings are special, because unlike normal memory mappings, there is no lifetime information associated with the mapping - it is just a raw mapping of PFNs with no reference counting of a 'struct page'. That's all very much intentional, but it does mean that it's easy to mess up the cleanup in case of errors. Yes, a failed mmap() will always eventually clean up any partial mappings, but without any explicit lifetime in the page table mapping itself, it's very easy to do the error handling in the wrong order. In particular, it's easy to mistakenly free the physical backing store before the page tables are actually cleaned up and (temporarily) have stale dangling PTE entries. To make this situation less error-prone, just make sure that any partial pfn mapping is torn down early, before any other error handling.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.01%• Percentile: 2%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-459•Incomplete Cleanup

    The product does not properly "clean up" and remove temporary or supporting resources after they have been used.

Affected Systems

  • linux•linux

    ≥ b97a50adb37e98b940a30c4656565ff609aa8f94, < 3213fdcab961026203dd587a4533600c70b3336b | ≥ 69d4e1ce9087c8767f2fe9b9426fa2755c8e9072, < 35770ca6180caa24a2b258c99a87bd437a1ee10f | ≥ 74ffa5a3e68504dd289135b1cf0422c19ffb3f2e, < 5b2c8b34f6d76bfbd1dd4936eb8a0fbfb9af3959 | ≥ 74ffa5a3e68504dd289135b1cf0422c19ffb3f2e, < 65d0db500d7c07f0f76fc24a4d837791c4862cd2 | ≥ 74ffa5a3e68504dd289135b1cf0422c19ffb3f2e, < a95a24fcaee1b892e47d5e6dcc403f713874ee80 | ≥ 74ffa5a3e68504dd289135b1cf0422c19ffb3f2e, < 954fd4c81f22c4b6ba65379a81fd252971bf4ef3 | ≥ 74ffa5a3e68504dd289135b1cf0422c19ffb3f2e, < 79a61cc3fc0466ad2b7b89618a6157785f0293b3 | 5.13

  • linux•linux_kernel

    < 5.15.168 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.111 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.52 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.10.11 | 6.11:rc1 | 6.11:rc2 | 6.11:rc3 | 6.11:rc4 | 6.11:rc5 | 6.11:rc6 | 6.11:rc7

References (10)