CVE-2024-41055 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm: prevent derefencing NULL ptr in pfn_section_valid()

Commit 5ec8e8ea8b77 (\mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memory_section->usage) changed pfn_section_valid() to add a READ_ONCE() call around \ms->usage\ to fix a race with section_deactivate() where ms->usage can be cleared. The READ_ONCE() call by itself is not enough to prevent NULL pointer dereference. We need to check its value before dereferencing it.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0100aeb8a12d51950418e685f879cc80cb8e5982 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc17f2377818dca643a74499c3f5333500c90503 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/941e816185661bf2b44b488565d09444ae316509 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/797323d1cf92d09b7a017cfec576d9babf99cde7 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adccdf702b4ea913ded5ff512239e382d7473b63 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82f0b6f041fad768c28b4ad05a683065412c226e