{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42243 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-42243 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 7 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-42243 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-42243 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 7 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42243 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42243/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42243/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-42243","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42243/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-42243","record":{"aliases":["AZL-47516","BELL-CVE-2024-42243","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42243","GHSA-7j6j-8jww-jc3g","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2024-42243","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42243"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can trigger a kernel warning and potential crash by exploiting page cache size limits on systems with specific large page sizes.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/filemap: make MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER acceptable to xarray\n\nPatch series \"mm/filemap: Limit page cache size to that supported by\nxarray\", v2.\n\nCurrently, xarray can't support arbitrary page cache size.  More details\ncan be found from the WARN_ON() statement in xas_split_alloc().  In our\ntest whose code is attached below, we hit the WARN_ON() on ARM64 system\nwhere the base page size is 64KB and huge page size is 512MB.  The issue\nwas reported long time ago and some discussions on it can be found here\n[1].\n\n[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-xfs/msg75404.html\n\nIn order to fix the issue, we need to adjust MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER to one\nsupported by xarray and avoid PMD-sized page cache if needed.  The code\nchanges are suggested by David Hildenbrand.\n\nPATCH[1] adjusts MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER to that supported by xarray\nPATCH[2-3] avoids PMD-sized page cache in the synchronous readahead path\nPATCH[4] avoids PMD-sized page cache for shmem files if needed\n\nTest program\n============\n# cat test.c\n#define _GNU_SOURCE\n#include \u003cstdio.h\u003e\n#include \u003cstdlib.h\u003e\n#include \u003cunistd.h\u003e\n#include \u003cstring.h\u003e\n#include \u003cfcntl.h\u003e\n#include \u003cerrno.h\u003e\n#include \u003csys/syscall.h\u003e\n#include \u003csys/mman.h\u003e\n\n#define TEST_XFS_FILENAME\t\"/tmp/data\"\n#define TEST_SHMEM_FILENAME\t\"/dev/shm/data\"\n#define TEST_MEM_SIZE\t\t0x20000000\n\nint main(int argc, char **argv)\n{\n\tconst char *filename;\n\tint fd = 0;\n\tvoid *buf = (void *)-1, *p;\n\tint pgsize = getpagesize();\n\tint ret;\n\n\tif (pgsize != 0x10000) {\n\t\tfprintf(stderr, \"64KB base page size is required\\n\");\n\t\treturn -EPERM;\n\t}\n\n\tsystem(\"echo force \u003e /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled\");\n\tsystem(\"rm -fr /tmp/data\");\n\tsystem(\"rm -fr /dev/shm/data\");\n\tsystem(\"echo 1 \u003e /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches\");\n\n\t/* Open xfs or shmem file */\n\tfilename = TEST_XFS_FILENAME;\n\tif (argc \u003e 1 \u0026\u0026 !strcmp(argv[1], \"shmem\"))\n\t\tfilename = TEST_SHMEM_FILENAME;\n\n\tfd = open(filename, O_CREAT | O_RDWR | O_TRUNC);\n\tif (fd \u003c 0) {\n\t\tfprintf(stderr, \"Unable to open \u003c%s\u003e\\n\", filename);\n\t\treturn -EIO;\n\t}\n\n\t/* Extend file size */\n\tret = ftruncate(fd, TEST_MEM_SIZE);\n\tif (ret) {\n\t\tfprintf(stderr, \"Error %d to ftruncate()\\n\", ret);\n\t\tgoto cleanup;\n\t}\n\n\t/* Create VMA */\n\tbuf = mmap(NULL, TEST_MEM_SIZE,\n\t\t   PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);\n\tif (buf == (void *)-1) {\n\t\tfprintf(stderr, \"Unable to mmap \u003c%s\u003e\\n\", filename);\n\t\tgoto cleanup;\n\t}\n\n\tfprintf(stdout, \"mapped buffer at 0x%p\\n\", buf);\n\tret = madvise(buf, TEST_MEM_SIZE, MADV_HUGEPAGE);\n        if (ret) {\n\t\tfprintf(stderr, \"Unable to madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE)\\n\");\n\t\tgoto cleanup;\n\t}\n\n\t/* Populate VMA */\n\tret = madvise(buf, TEST_MEM_SIZE, MADV_POPULATE_WRITE);\n\tif (ret) {\n\t\tfprintf(stderr, \"Error %d to madvise(MADV_POPULATE_WRITE)\\n\", ret);\n\t\tgoto cleanup;\n\t}\n\n\t/* Punch the file to enforce xarray split */\n\tret = fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE,\n        \t\tTEST_MEM_SIZE - pgsize, pgsize);\n\tif (ret)\n\t\tfprintf(stderr, \"Error %d to fallocate()\\n\", ret);\n\ncleanup:\n\tif (buf != (void *)-1)\n\t\tmunmap(buf, TEST_MEM_SIZE);\n\tif (fd \u003e 0)\n\t\tclose(fd);\n\n\treturn 0;\n}\n\n# gcc test.c -o test\n# cat /proc/1/smaps | grep KernelPageSize | head -n 1\nKernelPageSize:       64 kB\n# ./test shmem\n   :\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nWARNING: CPU: 17 PID: 5253 at lib/xarray.c:1025 xas_split_alloc+0xf8/0x128\nModules linked in: nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib  \\\nnft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct    \\\nnft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4    \\\nip_set nf_tables rfkill nfnetlink vfat fat virtio_balloon          \\\ndrm fuse xfs libcrc32c crct10dif_ce ghash_ce sha2_ce sha256_arm64  \\\nvirtio_net sha1_ce net_failover failover virtio_console virtio_blk \\\ndimlib virtio_mmio\nCPU: 17 PID: 5253 Comm: test Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 6.10.0-rc5-gavin+ #12\nHardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20240524-1.el9 05/24/2024\npstate: 83400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TC\n---truncated---","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"mm/filemap: make MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER acceptable to xarray","id":"CVE-2024-42243","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"USB: serial: mos7840: fix crash on resume","id":"CVE-2024-42244"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"mmc: sdhci: Fix max_seg_size for 64KiB PAGE_SIZE","id":"CVE-2024-42242"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-08-07","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can trigger a kernel warning and potential crash by exploiting page cache size limits on systems with specific large page sizes.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42243/"}