CVE-2024-40917

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memblock: make memblock_set_node() also warn about use of MAX_NUMNODES On an (old) x86 system with SRAT just covering space above 4Gb: ACPI: SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 [mem 0x100000000-0xfffffffff] hotplug the commit referenced below leads to this NUMA configuration no longer being refused by a CONFIG_NUMA=y kernel (previously NUMA: nodes only cover 6144MB of your 8185MB e820 RAM. Not used. No NUMA configuration found Faking a node at [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000027fffffff] was seen in the log directly after the message quoted above), because of memblock_validate_numa_coverage() checking for NUMA_NO_NODE (only). This in turn led to memblock_alloc_range_nid()'s warning about MAX_NUMNODES triggering, followed by a NULL deref in memmap_init() when trying to access node 64's (NODE_SHIFT=6) node data. To compensate said change, make memblock_set_node() warn on and adjust a passed in value of MAX_NUMNODES, just like various other functions already do.

CVSS v3 5.5 MEDIUM

5.5^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22f742b8f738918f683198a18ec3c691acda14c4	Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ddb7f966f3d06fcf1ba5ee298af6714b593584b	Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0eec24e2e199873f43df99ec39773ad3af2bff7	Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22f742b8f738918f683198a18ec3c691acda14c4	Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0eec24e2e199873f43df99ec39773ad3af2bff7	Patch

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10:rc1::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10:rc2::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10:rc3::::::

History

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Information

Published : 2024-07-12 13:15

Updated : 2025-10-03 14:24

NVD link : CVE-2024-40917

Mitre link : CVE-2024-40917

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-40917

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Products Affected

linux

linux_kernel

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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