CVE-2024-43832: 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: s390/uv: Don't call folio_wait_writeback() without a folio reference folio_wait_writeback() requires that no spinlocks are held and that a folio reference is held, as documented. After we dropped the PTL, the folio could get freed concurrently. So grab a temporary reference.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.7, before 6.1.103 (fixed in 6.1.103); from 6.2, before 6.6.44 (fixed in 6.6.44); from 6.7, before 6.10.3 (fixed in 6.10.3)

Published 2024-08-17. Last modified 2026-08-04.