Description

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

sched/numa: Fix the potential null pointer dereference in task_numa_work()

When running stress-ng-vm-segv test, we found a null pointer dereference
error in task_numa_work(). Here is the backtrace:

[323676.066985] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000020
......
[323676.067108] CPU: 35 PID: 2694524 Comm: stress-ng-vm-se
......
[323676.067113] pstate: 23401009 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT +SSBS BTYPE=--)
[323676.067115] pc : vma_migratable+0x1c/0xd0
[323676.067122] lr : task_numa_work+0x1ec/0x4e0
[323676.067127] sp : ffff8000ada73d20
[323676.067128] x29: ffff8000ada73d20 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 000000003e89f010
[323676.067130] x26: 0000000000080000 x25: ffff800081b5c0d8 x24: ffff800081b27000
[323676.067133] x23: 0000000000010000 x22: 0000000104d18cc0 x21: ffff0009f7158000
[323676.067135] x20: 0000000000000000 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: ffff8000ada73db8
[323676.067138] x17: 0001400000000000 x16: ffff800080df40b0 x15: 0000000000000035
[323676.067140] x14: ffff8000ada73cc8 x13: 1fffe0017cc72001 x12: ffff8000ada73cc8
[323676.067142] x11: ffff80008001160c x10: ffff000be639000c x9 : ffff8000800f4ba4
[323676.067145] x8 : ffff000810375000 x7 : ffff8000ada73974 x6 : 0000000000000001
[323676.067147] x5 : 0068000b33e26707 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : ffff0009f7158000
[323676.067149] x2 : 0000000000000041 x1 : 0000000000004400 x0 : 000...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-50223

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: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 6.46% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

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

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50223
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ade91f6e9848b370add44d89c976e070ccb492ef
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c60d98ef7078fc3e22b48e98eae7a897d88494ee
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c70b2a33cd2aa6a5a59c5523ef053bd42265209

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