CVE-2024-40950 is a medium-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel affecting the memory management subsystem, specifically related to transparent huge pages (THP). The flaw arises from the misuse of mapping_large_folio_support() for anonymous folios, leading to a failure in splitting anonymous THPs. This local vulnerability (AV:L) has low attack complexity (AC:L) and low privileges required (PR:L), potentially resulting in high availability impact (A:H) due to system instability or crashes. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 6.9, < 6.9.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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