nommu: pass NULL argument to vma_iter_prealloc()
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 sourcePublished 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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