CVE-2024-47668: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lib/generic-radix-tree.c: Fix rare race in __genradix_ptr_alloc() If we need to increase the tree depth, allocate a new node, and then race with another thread that increased the tree depth before us, we'll still have a preallocated node that might be used later. If we then use that node for a new non-root node, it'll still have a pointer to the old root instead of being zeroed - fix this by zeroing it in the cmpxchg failure path.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.4.284 (fixed in 5.4.284); from 5.5, before 5.10.226 (fixed in 5.10.226); from 5.11, before 5.15.167 (fixed in 5.15.167); from 5.16, before 6.1.110 (fixed in 6.1.110); from 6.2, before 6.6.51 (fixed in 6.6.51); from 6.7, before 6.10.10 (fixed in 6.10.10); …

Published 2024-10-09. Last modified 2026-08-04.