In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process A soft lockup issue was found in the product with about 56,000 tasks were in the OOM cgroup, it was traversing them when the soft lockup was triggered. watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s! [VM Thread:1503066] CPU: 2 PID: 1503066 Comm: VM Thread Kdump: loaded Tainted: G Hardware name: Huawei Cloud OpenStack Nova, BIOS RIP: 0010:console_unlock+0x343/0x540 RSP: 0000:ffffb751447db9a0 EFLAGS: 00000247 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff13 RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000ffffffff RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 0000000000000247 RBP: ffffffffafc71f90 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000040 R10: 0000000000000080 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffffafc74bd0 R13: ffffffffaf60a220 R14: 0000000000000247 R15: 0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f2fe6ad91f0 CR3: 00000004b2076003 CR4: 0000000000360ee0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: vprintk_emit+0x193/0x280 printk+0x52/0x6e dump_task+0x114/0x130 mem_cgroup_scan_tasks+0x76/0x100 dump_header+0x1fe/0x210 oom_kill_process+0xd1/0x100 out_of_memory+0x125/0x570 mem_cgroup_out_of_memory+0xb5/0xd0 try_charge+0x720/0x770 mem_cgroup_try_charge+0x86/0x180 mem_cgroup_try_charge_delay+0x1c/0x40 do_anonymous_page+0xb5/0x390 handle_mm_fault+0xc4/0x1f0 This is because thousands of processes are in the OOM cgroup, it takes a long time to traverse all of them. As a result, this lead to soft lockup in the OOM process. To fix this issue, call 'cond_resched' in the 'mem_cgroup_scan_tasks' function per 1000 iterations. For global OOM, call 'touch_softlockup_watchdog' per 1000 iterations to avoid this issue.

The remote Debian 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5900 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian Security Advisory DSA-5900-1                   security@debian.org     https://www.debian.org/security/                     Salvatore Bonaccorso     April 12, 2025                        https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package        : linux     CVE ID         : CVE-2023-52857 CVE-2023-52927 CVE-2024-24855 CVE-2024-26656                      CVE-2024-26767 CVE-2024-26982 CVE-2024-27056 CVE-2024-35866                      CVE-2024-38611 CVE-2024-40973 CVE-2024-42129 CVE-2024-43831                      CVE-2024-46772 CVE-2024-47753 CVE-2024-47754 CVE-2024-50056                      CVE-2024-50246 CVE-2024-53166 CVE-2024-57977 CVE-2024-58002                      CVE-2024-58005 CVE-2024-58079 CVE-2024-58090 CVE-2025-21702                      CVE-2025-21712 CVE-2025-21721 CVE-2025-21756 CVE-2025-21838                      CVE-2025-21844 CVE-2025-21846 CVE-2025-21848 CVE-2025-21855                      CVE-2025-21858 CVE-2025-21859 CVE-2025-21862 CVE-2025-21864                      CVE-2025-21865 CVE-2025-21866 CVE-2025-21867 CVE-2025-21871                      CVE-2025-21875 CVE-2025-21877 CVE-2025-21878 CVE-2025-21881                      CVE-2025-21887 CVE-2025-21891 CVE-2025-21898 CVE-2025-21899                      CVE-2025-21904 CVE-2025-21905 CVE-2025-21909 CVE-2025-21910                      CVE-2025-21912 CVE-2025-21913 CVE-2025-21914 CVE-2025-21916                      CVE-2025-21917 CVE-2025-21918 CVE-2025-21919 CVE-2025-21920                      CVE-2025-21922 CVE-2025-21924 CVE-2025-21925 CVE-2025-21926                      CVE-2025-21928 CVE-2025-21934 CVE-2025-21935 CVE-2025-21936                      CVE-2025-21937 CVE-2025-21938 CVE-2025-21941 CVE-2025-21943                      CVE-2025-21944 CVE-2025-21945 CVE-2025-21947 CVE-2025-21948                      CVE-2025-21950 CVE-2025-21951 CVE-2025-21956 CVE-2025-21957                      CVE-2025-21959 CVE-2025-21960 CVE-2025-21962 CVE-2025-21963                      CVE-2025-21964 CVE-2025-21968 CVE-2025-21970 CVE-2025-21971                      CVE-2025-21975 CVE-2025-21978 CVE-2025-21979 CVE-2025-21980                      CVE-2025-21981 CVE-2025-21986 CVE-2025-21991 CVE-2025-21992                      CVE-2025-21993 CVE-2025-21994 CVE-2025-21996 CVE-2025-21997                      CVE-2025-21999 CVE-2025-22004 CVE-2025-22005 CVE-2025-22007                      CVE-2025-22008 CVE-2025-22010 CVE-2025-22014 CVE-2025-22015

    Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that     may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information     leaks.

    For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in     version 6.1.133-1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your linux packages.

    For the detailed security status of linux please refer to its security     tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/linux

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update of the linux package has been released.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM     process A soft lockup issue was found in the product with about 56,000 tasks were in the OOM cgroup, it     was traversing them when the soft lockup was triggered. watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s!     [VM Thread:1503066] CPU: 2 PID: 1503066 Comm: VM Thread Kdump: loaded Tainted: G Hardware name: Huawei     Cloud OpenStack Nova, BIOS RIP: 0010:console_unlock+0x343/0x540 RSP: 0000:ffffb751447db9a0 EFLAGS:
    00000247 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff13 RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000ffffffff RDX:
    0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 0000000000000247 RBP: ffffffffafc71f90 R08: 0000000000000000     R09: 0000000000000040 R10: 0000000000000080 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffffafc74bd0 R13:
    ffffffffaf60a220 R14: 0000000000000247 R15: 0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0:
    0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f2fe6ad91f0 CR3: 00000004b2076003 CR4: 0000000000360ee0 DR0: 0000000000000000     DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7:
    0000000000000400 Call Trace: vprintk_emit+0x193/0x280 printk+0x52/0x6e dump_task+0x114/0x130     mem_cgroup_scan_tasks+0x76/0x100 dump_header+0x1fe/0x210 oom_kill_process+0xd1/0x100     out_of_memory+0x125/0x570 mem_cgroup_out_of_memory+0xb5/0xd0 try_charge+0x720/0x770     mem_cgroup_try_charge+0x86/0x180 mem_cgroup_try_charge_delay+0x1c/0x40 do_anonymous_page+0xb5/0x390     handle_mm_fault+0xc4/0x1f0 This is because thousands of processes are in the OOM cgroup, it takes a long     time to traverse all of them. As a result, this lead to soft lockup in the OOM process. To fix this issue,     call 'cond_resched' in the 'mem_cgroup_scan_tasks' function per 1000 iterations. For global OOM, call     'touch_softlockup_watchdog' per 1000 iterations to avoid this issue. (CVE-2024-57977)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
234309	Debian dsa-5900 : affs-modules-6.1.0-28-4kc-malta-di - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
233213	Photon OS 4.0: Linux PHSA-2025-4.0-0771	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
232764	Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2025-5.0-0486	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
231697	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-57977	Nessus	Misc.	medium

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