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nommu: pass NULL argument to vma_iter_prealloc()

Type: advisorySources: OSV

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nommu: pass NULL argument to vma_iter_prealloc() When deleting a vma entry from a maple tree, it has to pass NULL to vma_iter_prealloc() in order to calculate internal state of the tree, but it passed a wrong argument. As a result, nommu kernels crashed upon accessing a vma iterator, such as acct_collect() reading the size of vma entries after do_munmap(). This commit fixes this issue by passing a right argument to the preallocation call.

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
6.11.10, 6.6.63
CVEs
CVE-2024-53109
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
2 Nov 2026, 19:00 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

nommu: pass NULL argument to vma_iter_prealloc()

core-osv · Original source

Published 2 Dec 2024, 13:44 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nommu: pass NULL argument to vma_iter_prealloc() When deleting a vma entry from a maple tree, it has to pass NULL to vma_iter_prealloc() in order to calculate internal state of the tree, but it passed a wrong argument. As a result, nommu kernels crashed upon accessing a vma iterator, such as acct_collect() reading the size of vma entries after do_munmap(). This commit fixes this issue by passing a right argument to the preallocation call.

osv:CVE-2024-53109

Kernel

Fixed versions: 6.6.63, 6.11.10

Complete source record
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