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high 7.8

CVE-2024-47674 json

mm: avoid leaving partial pfn mappings around in error case

published 2024-10-15 2 y ago modified 2026-08-05 3 mo ago also EUVD-2024-42595

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 15%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.15.168, 6.1.111, 6.6.52, 6.10.11, 6.11
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.112-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.10.11-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-47674

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-127.137
  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-50.51
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1073.79
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1020.22
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1072.80
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1019.21
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1070.76
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1015.19

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47674

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_2 Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 11-1.1
  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_2 Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 11-1.1
  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_3 Linux Micro 6.0 11-1.2
  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_3 Linux Micro 6.0 11-1.2
  • kernel-source Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-24.1
  • kernel-default Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-24.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-24.1
  • kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-24.1.21.4

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:4123-1SUSE-SU-2025:03226-1SUSE-SU-2025:03223-1SUSE-SU-2025:03209-1SUSE-SU-2025:03191-1SUSE-SU-2025:03190-1

  • kernel CBL-Mariner 2.0 5.15.173.1-1
  • kernel Azure Linux 3.0 6.6.56.1-5

azure linux advisories AZL-50582AZL-50597

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-47674 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: mm: avoid leaving partial pfn mappings around in error case

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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