Local service interruption via page-reference leak
Published May 17, 2024 · Updated May 23, 2026
Page-reference leakage in the Linux kernel block layer allows local users to exhaust memory through unaligned buffers. The __bio_release_pages() loop counted pages from buffer length alone, omitting the starting offset when a buffer crossed a page boundary. A local low-privileged user able to submit affected block I/O can retain page references until memory pressure hangs or crashes the system.
Summary
What happened
Page-reference leakage in the Linux kernel block layer allows local users to exhaust memory through unaligned buffers. The __bio_release_pages() loop counted pages from buffer length alone, omitting the starting offset when a buffer crossed a page boundary. A local low-privileged user able to submit affected block I/O can retain page references until memory pressure hangs or crashes the system.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-35826
- Published
- May 17, 2024
- Updated
- May 23, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- May 17, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 23, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0f2dca516541032fe47a1236c852f58edc662795
- Affected versionversion=1b151e2435fc3a9b10c8946c6aebe9f3e1938c55 <38b43539d64b2fa020b3b9a752a986769f87f7a6
- Affected versionversion=1b151e2435fc3a9b10c8946c6aebe9f3e1938c55 <c9d3d2fbde9b8197bce88abcbe8ee8e713ffe7c2
- Affected versionversion=3f4e660144edb053886fc80f587a71ad7afc2ad6
- Affected versionversion=4.19.307 <4.20
- Affected versionversion=5.10.210 <5.11
- Affected versionversion=5.15.148 <5.16
- Affected versionversion=5.4.269 <5.5
- Affected versionversion=6.1.75 <6.1.84
- Affected versionversion=6.6.14 <6.6.24
- Affected versionversion=6.7.2 <6.7.12
- Affected versionversion=6.8
- Affected versionversion=8955324cc9f93304efe163120038b38c36c09fba <7d3765550374f71248c55e6206ea1d6fd4537e65
- Affected versionversion=9025ee1079291fac79c7fcc20086e9f0015f86f4 <242006996d15f5ca62e22f8c7de077d9c4a8f367
- Affected versionversion=bfc0647791d7a8f3e178a896a26c4ef7794876b7
- Affected versionversion=d198c15d181cc9d580f0f2c25150b077d1d49c1a <ecbd9ced84dd655a8f4cd49d2aad0e80dbf6bf35
- Affected versionversion=d2d0b95ca1b5fefa3deed444a803c9f809db66cf
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