CVE-2024-53175

CVE Details

Release Date:	2024-12-27
Impact:	Low	What is this?

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipc: fix memleak if msg_init_ns failed in create_ipc_ns Percpu memory allocation may failed during create_ipc_ns however this fail is not handled properly since ipc sysctls and mq sysctls is not released properly. Fix this by release these two resource when failure. Here is the kmemleak stack when percpu failed: unreferenced object 0xffff88819de2a600 (size 512): comm "shmem_2nstest", pid 120711, jiffies 4300542254 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 60 aa 9d 84 ff ff ff ff fc 18 48 b2 84 88 ff ff `.........H..... 04 00 00 00 a4 01 00 00 20 e4 56 81 ff ff ff ff ........ .V..... backtrace (crc be7cba35): [] __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x333/0x420 [] kmemdup_noprof+0x26/0x50 [] setup_mq_sysctls+0x57/0x1d0 [] copy_ipcs+0x29c/0x3b0 [] create_new_namespaces+0x1d0/0x920 [] copy_namespaces+0x2e9/0x3e0 [] copy_process+0x29f3/0x7ff0 [] kernel_clone+0xc0/0x650 [] __do_sys_clone+0xa1/0xe0 [] do_syscall_64+0xbf/0x1c0 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

See more information about CVE-2024-53175 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v3 metrics

Base Score:	5.5
Vector String:	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Version:	3.1
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	Low
Privileges Required:	Low
User Interaction:	None
Scope:	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	High

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 10 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2025-20480	2025-07-17
Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2025-20480	2025-07-17