{"id":"CVE-2024-45022","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-45022","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:30:51.835Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmalloc: fix page mapping if vm_area_alloc_pages() with high order fallback to order 0 The __vmap_pages_range_noflush() assumes its argument pages** contains pages with the same page…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/vmalloc: fix page mapping if vm_area_alloc_pages() with high order fallback to order 0\n\nThe __vmap_pages_range_noflush() assumes its argument pages** contains\npages with the same page shift.  However, since commit e9c3cda4d86e (\"mm,\nvmalloc: fix high order __GFP_NOFAIL allocations\"), if gfp_flags includes\n__GFP_NOFAIL with high order in vm_area_alloc_pages() and page allocation\nfailed for high order, the pages** may contain two different page shifts\n(high order and order-0).  This could lead __vmap_pages_range_noflush() to\nperform incorrect mappings, potentially resulting in memory corruption.\n\nUsers might encounter this as follows (vmap_allow_huge = true, 2M is for\nPMD_SIZE):\n\nkvmalloc(2M, __GFP_NOFAIL|GFP_X)\n    __vmalloc_node_range_noprof(vm_flags=VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP)\n        vm_area_alloc_pages(order=9) ---> order-9 allocation failed and fallback to order-0\n            vmap_pages_range()\n                vmap_pages_range_noflush()\n                    __vmap_pages_range_noflush(page_shift = 21) ----> wrong mapping happens\n\nWe can remove the fallback code because if a high-order allocation fails,\n__vmalloc_node_range_noprof() will retry with order-0.  Therefore, it is\nunnecessary to fallback to order-0 here.  Therefore, fix this by removing\nthe fallback code.","published":"2024-09-11T16:15:07.000Z","lastModified":"2026-08-04T11:20:12.000Z","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-787"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00229,"percentile":0.13608,"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 (0.23%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61ebe5a747da649057c37be1c37eb934b4af79ca","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c91618816f4d21fc574d7577a37722adcd4075b2","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de7bad86345c43cd040ed43e20d9fad78a3ee59f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd1ffbb50ef4da5e1378a46616b6d7407dc795da","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45022","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."}