{"id":"CVE-2024-49872","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-49872","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:13:42.388Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/gup: fix memfd_pin_folios alloc race panic If memfd_pin_folios tries to create a hugetlb page, but someone else already did, then folio gets the value -EEXIST here: folio =…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/gup: fix memfd_pin_folios alloc race panic\n\nIf memfd_pin_folios tries to create a hugetlb page, but someone else\nalready did, then folio gets the value -EEXIST here:\n\n        folio = memfd_alloc_folio(memfd, start_idx);\n        if (IS_ERR(folio)) {\n                ret = PTR_ERR(folio);\n                if (ret != -EEXIST)\n                        goto err;\n\nthen on the next trip through the \"while start_idx\" loop we panic here:\n\n        if (folio) {\n                folio_put(folio);\n\nTo fix, set the folio to NULL on error.","published":"2024-10-21T18:15:09.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:00:38.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":4.7,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-362"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00145,"percentile":0.03732,"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 (0.14%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce645b9fdc78ec5d28067286e92871ddae6817d5","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e28f39b359c0cfdcc011603e51187085a5f1e5e3","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49872","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."}