Vulnerability in Linux
CVE-2024-41932
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: fix warning in sched_setaffinity Commit 8f9ea86fdf99b added some logic to sched_setaffinity that included a WARN when a per-task affinity assignment races with a cpuset update. Specifically, we can have a race where a cpuset update results in the task affinity no longer being a subset of the cpuset. That's fine; we have a fallback to instead use the cpuset mask. However, we have a WARN set up that will trigger if the cpuset mask has no overlap at all with the requested task affinity. This shouldn't be a warning condition; its trivial to create this condition. Reproduced the warning by the following setup: - $PID inside a cpuset cgroup - another thread repeatedly switching the cpuset cpus from 1-2 to just 1 - another thread repeatedly setting the $PID affinity (via taskset) to 2
EPSS: 0.002 (8.8th 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 8f9ea86fdf99b81458cc21fc1c591fcd4a0fa1f4, 6.2, 0
- Linux Linux_kernel — versions 6.13
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Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2024-41932?
- CVE-2024-41932 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-01-11.
- How severe is CVE-2024-41932?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.