CVE-2024-42267: 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: riscv/mm: Add handling for VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV in mm_fault_error() Handle VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV in the page fault path so that we correctly kill the process and we don't BUG() the kernel.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.15, before 5.10.224 (fixed in 5.10.224); from 5.11, before 5.15.165 (fixed in 5.15.165); from 5.16, before 6.1.104 (fixed in 6.1.104); from 6.2, before 6.6.45 (fixed in 6.6.45); from 6.7, before 6.10.4 (fixed in 6.10.4); version 6.11 only

Published 2024-08-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.