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CVE-2024-40950· NVD / CVE Program· CNA Linux

mm: huge_memory: fix misused mapping_large_folio_support() for anon folios

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.20% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Linux Linux 5df493a99fcf887133cf01d23cd4bebb6d385d3c, 6a50c9b512f7734bc356f4bd47885a6f7c98491a.
  • Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 5df493a99fcf887133cf01d23cd4bebb6d385d3c, 6a50c9b512f7734bc356f4bd47885a6f7c98491a or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: huge_memory: fix misused mapping_large_folio_support() for anon folios When I did a large folios split test, a WARNING "[ 5059.122759][ T166] Cannot split file folio to non-0 order" was triggered. But the test cases are only for anonmous folios. while mapping_large_folio_support() is only reasonable for page cache folios. In split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(), the folio passed to mapping_large_folio_support() maybe anonmous folio. The folio_test_anon() check is missing. So the split of the anonmous THP is failed. This is also the same for shmem_mapping(). We'd better add a check for both. But the shmem_mapping() in __split_huge_page() is not involved, as for anonmous folios, the end parameter is set to -1, so (head[i].index >= end) is always false. shmem_mapping() is not called. Also add a VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() in mapping_large_folio_support() for anon mapping, So we can detect the wrong use more easily. THP folios maybe exist in the pagecache even the file system doesn't support large folio, it is because when CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is enabled, khugepaged will try to collapse read-only file-backed pages to THP. But the mapping does not actually support multi order large folios properly. Using /sys/kernel/debug/split_huge_pages to verify this, with this patch, large anon THP is successfully split and the warning is ceased.

MediumCVSS 5.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Jul 12, 2024
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 10th percentile
CWE
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22

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

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  • linux linux kernel6.9 and later · before 6.9.7
  • linux linux kernel6.10

Versions reported by the vendor

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  • Linux Linux

    • 6.9affected
    • c010d47f107f609b9f4d6a103b6dfc53889049e9 and later · before 5df493a99fcf887133cf01d23cd4bebb6d385d3caffected · git
    • c010d47f107f609b9f4d6a103b6dfc53889049e9 and later · before 6a50c9b512f7734bc356f4bd47885a6f7c98491aaffected · git
    • before 6.9not affected · semver
    • 6.9.7 and later · up to and including 6.9.*not affected · semver
    • 6.10 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:13linuxbefore 6.9.7-16.9.7-1

Same product

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    89Now
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    85Now
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    83Now

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-40948Jul 12, 2024 · mm/page_table_check: fix crash on ZONE_DEVICE
    22Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-40949Jul 12, 2024 · mm: shmem: fix getting incorrect lruvec when replacing a shmem folio
    22Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2024-40951Jul 12, 2024 · ocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in ocfs2_abort_trigger()
    22Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linux5df493a99fcf887133cf01d23cd4bebb6d385d3cVendor (CNA)
Linux Linux6a50c9b512f7734bc356f4bd47885a6f7c98491aVendor (CNA)
debian:linux6.9.7-1 · Debian:13Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

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Research context

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Timeline

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EPSS, last 120 days

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Patch and commit links

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Variant candidates

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No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

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National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

—

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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