Service interruption via unchecked slab-page splicing
Published Nov 21, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Improper page handling in affected Linux kernel releases allows local users to interrupt service through the iSER-over-SIW transmit path. The SIW driver sets MSG_SPLICE_PAGES without first calling sendpage_ok(), allowing skb_splice_from_iter() to receive a slab page that send_page must not process. Exposure requires an iSER initiator operating over SIW, and the published trace demonstrates a kernel warning rather than arbitrary code execution.
Summary
What happened
Improper page handling in affected Linux kernel releases allows local users to interrupt service through the iSER-over-SIW transmit path. The SIW driver sets MSG_SPLICE_PAGES without first calling sendpage_ok(), allowing skb_splice_from_iter() to receive a slab page that send_page must not process. Exposure requires an iSER initiator operating over SIW, and the published trace demonstrates a kernel warning rather than arbitrary code execution.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-53094
- Published
- Nov 21, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Nov 21, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0e935ae6afcdbe6f0c0aa457ae57feccc63bb9be <3406bfc813a9bbd9c3055795e985f527b7852e8c
- Affected versionversion=0e935ae6afcdbe6f0c0aa457ae57feccc63bb9be <4e1e3dd88a4cedd5ccc1a3fc3d71e03b70a7a791
- Affected versionversion=0e935ae6afcdbe6f0c0aa457ae57feccc63bb9be <bb5738957d92c8603a90c9664d34236641c221b2
- Affected versionversion=5.3
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