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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-36882

medium Nessus Plugin ID 229308

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

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: mm: use memalloc_nofs_save() in page_cache_ra_order() See commit f2c817bed58d (mm: use memalloc_nofs_save in readahead path), ensure that page_cache_ra_order() do not attempt to reclaim file-backed pages too, or it leads to a deadlock, found issue when test ext4 large folio. INFO: task DataXceiver for:7494 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs disables this message. task:DataXceiver for state:D stack:0 pid:7494 ppid:1 flags:0x00000200 Call trace: __switch_to+0x14c/0x240 __schedule+0x82c/0xdd0 schedule+0x58/0xf0 io_schedule+0x24/0xa0 __folio_lock+0x130/0x300 migrate_pages_batch+0x378/0x918 migrate_pages+0x350/0x700 compact_zone+0x63c/0xb38 compact_zone_order+0xc0/0x118 try_to_compact_pages+0xb0/0x280 __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x98/0x248 __alloc_pages+0x510/0x1110 alloc_pages+0x9c/0x130 folio_alloc+0x20/0x78 filemap_alloc_folio+0x8c/0x1b0 page_cache_ra_order+0x174/0x308 ondemand_readahead+0x1c8/0x2b8 page_cache_async_ra+0x68/0xb8 filemap_readahead.isra.0+0x64/0xa8 filemap_get_pages+0x3fc/0x5b0 filemap_splice_read+0xf4/0x280 ext4_file_splice_read+0x2c/0x48 [ext4] vfs_splice_read.part.0+0xa8/0x118 splice_direct_to_actor+0xbc/0x288 do_splice_direct+0x9c/0x108 do_sendfile+0x328/0x468 __arm64_sys_sendfile64+0x8c/0x148 invoke_syscall+0x4c/0x118 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xf0 do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38 el0_svc+0x4c/0x1f8 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc0/0xc8 el0t_64_sync+0x188/0x190 (CVE-2024-36882)

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

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 229308

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_36882.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/5/2025

Updated: 3/5/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-36882

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/30/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-36882