Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

memcg_write_event_control(): fix a user-triggerable oops

we are *not* guaranteed that anything past the terminating NUL
is mapped (let alone initialized with anything sane).

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-45021

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.07% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 22.66% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-02 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45021
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa5bfdf6cb5846a00e712d630a43e3cf55ccb411
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b37ec85ad95b612307627758c6018cd9d92cca8
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad149f5585345e383baa65f1539d816cd715fd3b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fbe2a72e853a1052abe9bc2b7df8ddb102da227
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43768fa80fd192558737e24ed6548f74554611d7
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1aa7c509aa766080db7ab3aec2e31b1df09e57c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21b578f1d599edb87462f11113c5b0fc7a04ac61
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/046667c4d3196938e992fba0dfcde570aa85cd0e

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