CVE-2024-0841

Kernel: hugetlbfs: null pointer dereference in hugetlbfs_fill_super function

State: Published
Severity: 6.6 Medium
Published: Jan 28, 2024
Updated: Nov 6, 2025
Reserved: Jan 23, 2024

Description

A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the hugetlbfs_fill_super function in the Linux kernel hugetlbfs (HugeTLB pages) functionality. This issue may allow a local user to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.6 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat	0:4.18.0-553.rt7.342.el8_10 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat	0:4.18.0-553.el8_10 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat	0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat	0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat

References

RHSA-2024:2394vendor-advisory
RHSA-2024:2950vendor-advisory
RHSA-2024:3138vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0841vdb-entry
RHBZ#2256490issue-tracking
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html

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