CVE-2024-26602 sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier

What is CVE-2024-26602?

CVE-2024-26602 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 24 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier

On some systems, sys_membarrier can be very expensive, causing overall slowdowns for everything. So put a lock on the path in order to serialize the accesses to prevent the ability for this to be called at too high of a frequency and saturate the machine.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-26602?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-26602?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-26602 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26602 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-40024, BELL-CVE-2024-26602, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26602, GHSA-5pjp-x72x-j9r3, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26602.