CVE-2024-26943: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nouveau/dmem: handle kcalloc() allocation failure The kcalloc() in nouveau_dmem_evict_chunk() will return null if the physical memory has run out. As a result, if we dereference src_pfns, dst_pfns or dma_addrs, the null pointer dereference bugs will happen. Moreover, the GPU is going away. If the kcalloc() fails, we could not evict all pages mapping a chunk. So this patch adds a __GFP_NOFAIL flag in kcalloc(). Finally, as there is no need to have physically contiguous memory, this patch switches kcalloc() to kvcalloc() in order to avoid failing allocations.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.1, before 6.1.84 (fixed in 6.1.84); from 6.2, before 6.6.24 (fixed in 6.6.24); from 6.7, before 6.7.12 (fixed in 6.7.12); from 6.8, before 6.8.3 (fixed in 6.8.3); version 6.9 only

Published 2024-05-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.