CVE-2024-41031

5.5 · MEDIUM

Published Jul 29, 2024 linux EPSS 0.29% (21th pctl) CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

CVE-2024-41031 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting linux linux_kernel. It was published on July 29, 2024 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM).

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5, rated MEDIUM. It requires local or adjacent network access to exploit. Some level of privileges is required for exploitation.

Technical Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/filemap: skip to create PMD-sized page cache if needed

On ARM64, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER is 13 when the base page size is 64KB. The

PMD-sized page cache can't be supported by xarray as the following error

messages indicate.

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WARNING: CPU: 35 PID: 7484 at lib/xarray.c:1025 xas_split_alloc+0xf8/0x128

Modules linked in: nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib \

nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct \

nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 \

ip_set rfkill nf_tables nfnetlink vfat fat virtio_balloon drm \

fuse xfs libcrc32c crct10dif_ce ghash_ce sha2_ce sha256_arm64 \

sha1_ce virtio_net net_failover virtio_console virtio_blk failover \

dimlib virtio_mmio

CPU: 35 PID: 7484 Comm: test Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 6.10.0-rc5-gavin+ #9

Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20240524-1.el9 05/24/2024

pstate: 83

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Status
linux	linux_kernel	>= 5.18, < 6.6.41	Affected

References

Ref git.kernel.org/stable/c/06b5a69c27ec405a3c3f2da8520ff1ee70b94a21 Ref git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ef650d3b1b2a16473981b447f38705fe9b93972 Ref git.kernel.org/stable/c/3390916aca7af1893ed2ebcdfee1d6fdb65bb058 Ref git.kernel.org/stable/c/06b5a69c27ec405a3c3f2da8520ff1ee70b94a21 Ref git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ef650d3b1b2a16473981b447f38705fe9b93972 Ref git.kernel.org/stable/c/3390916aca7af1893ed2ebcdfee1d6fdb65bb058

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2024-41031?

CVE-2024-41031 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting linux linux_kernel. It was published on July 29, 2024 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM).

How severe is CVE-2024-41031?

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5, rated MEDIUM. It requires local or adjacent network access to exploit. Some level of privileges is required for exploitation.

How do I fix or remediate CVE-2024-41031?

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