CVE-2024-43888
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43888
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-43888.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-43888
- Downstream
- Published
- 2024-08-26T10:10:40.890Z
- Modified
- 2025-11-28T02:35:48.312353Z
- Summary
- mm: list_lru: fix UAF for memory cgroup
- Details
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: list_lru: fix UAF for memory cgroup
The memcgroupfromslabobj() is supposed to be called under rcu lock or cgroup_mutex or others which could prevent returned memcg from being freed. Fix it by adding missing rcu read lock.
Found by code inspection.
[songmuchun@bytedance.com: only grab rcu lock when necessary, per Vlastimil]
- Database specific
{ "cna_assigner": "Linux", "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/43xxx/CVE-2024-43888.json" }- References
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- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4589f77c18dd98b65f45617b6d1e95313cf6fcab
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5161b48712dcd08ec427c450399d4d1483e21dea
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/43xxx/CVE-2024-43888.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43888