CVE-2024-45021: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memcg_write_event_control(): fix a user-triggerable oops we are *not* guaranteed that anything past the terminating NUL is mapped (let alone initialized with anything sane).

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.34, before 4.19.321 (fixed in 4.19.321); from 4.20, before 5.4.283 (fixed in 5.4.283); from 5.5, before 5.10.225 (fixed in 5.10.225); from 5.11, before 5.15.166 (fixed in 5.15.166); from 5.16, before 6.1.107 (fixed in 6.1.107); from 6.2, before 6.6.48 (fixed in 6.6.48); …

Published 2024-09-11. Last modified 2026-08-04.