What is CVE-2024-35797?

CVE-2024-35797 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-05-17.

How severe is CVE-2024-35797?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Linux

CVE-2024-35797

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: cachestat: fix two shmem bugs When cachestat on shmem races with swapping and invalidation, there are two possible bugs: 1) A swapin error can have resulted in a po…

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.006 (46.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Linux — versions cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a, 6.5, 0
Linux Linux_kernel — versions 6.9

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-35797?: CVE-2024-35797 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-05-17.
How severe is CVE-2024-35797?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.