{"cve":"CVE-2024-49873","nvd":{"published":"2024-10-21T18:15:08.763","modified":"2026-06-17T08:00:37.853","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/filemap: fix filemap_get_folios_contig THP panic\n\nPatch series \"memfd-pin huge page fixes\".\n\nFix multiple bugs that occur when using memfd_pin_folios with hugetlb\npages and THP.  The hugetlb bugs only bite when the page is not yet\nfaulted in when memfd_pin_folios is called.  The THP bug bites when the\nstarting offset passed to memfd_pin_folios is not huge page aligned.  See\nthe commit messages for details.\n\n\nThis patch (of 5):\n\nmemfd_pin_folios on memory backed by THP panics if the requested start\noffset is not huge page aligned:\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000036\nRIP: 0010:filemap_get_folios_contig+0xdf/0x290\nRSP: 0018:ffffc9002092fbe8 EFLAGS: 00010202\nRAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 0000000000000002\n\nThe fault occurs here, because xas_load returns a folio with value 2:\n\n    filemap_get_folios_contig()\n        for (folio = xas_load(&xas); folio && xas.xa_index <= end;\n                        folio = xas_next(&xas)) {\n                ...\n                if (!folio_try_get(folio))   <-- BOOM\n\n\"2\" is an xarray sibling entry.  We get it because memfd_pin_folios does\nnot round the indices passed to filemap_get_folios_contig to huge page\nboundaries for THP, so we load from the middle of a huge page range see a\nsibling.  (It does round for hugetlbfs, at the is_file_hugepages test).\n\nTo fix, if the folio is a sibling, then return the next index as the\nstarting point for the next call to filemap_get_folios_contig.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-476"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/570dd14bfecf281fa467c80f8ec92b26370ee36a","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c225c4f6056b46a8a5bf2ed35abf17a2d6887691"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:56:33.105311382+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-49873","score":0.00202,"percentile":0.10137,"date":"2026-11-01"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}