{"id":"CVE-2024-39477","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-39477","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:53:02.929Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: do not call vma_add_reservation upon ENOMEM sysbot reported a splat [1] on __unmap_hugepage_range().","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/hugetlb: do not call vma_add_reservation upon ENOMEM\n\nsysbot reported a splat [1] on __unmap_hugepage_range().  This is because\nvma_needs_reservation() can return -ENOMEM if\nallocate_file_region_entries() fails to allocate the file_region struct\nfor the reservation.\n\nCheck for that and do not call vma_add_reservation() if that is the case,\notherwise region_abort() and region_del() will see that we do not have any\nfile_regions.\n\nIf we detect that vma_needs_reservation() returned -ENOMEM, we clear the\nhugetlb_restore_reserve flag as if this reservation was still consumed, so\nfree_huge_folio() will not increment the resv count.\n\n[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/0000000000004096100617c58d54@google.com/T/#ma5983bc1ab18a54910da83416b3f89f3c7ee43aa","published":"2024-07-05T07:15:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-08-04T11:18:58.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-770"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00189,"percentile":0.08502,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.19%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8daf9c702ee7f825f0de8600abff764acfedea13","tags":["Mailing List","Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa998f9dcb34c28448f86e8f5490f20d5eb0eac7","tags":["Mailing List","Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8daf9c702ee7f825f0de8600abff764acfedea13","tags":["Mailing List","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa998f9dcb34c28448f86e8f5490f20d5eb0eac7","tags":["Mailing List","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39477","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}