Bug 2269189 (CVE-2023-52489) - CVE-2023-52489 kernel: mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memory_section->usage
Summary: CVE-2023-52489 kernel: mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memory_section->usage
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-52489
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2269190
Blocks: 2269239
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Reported: 2024-03-12 15:58 UTC by Marco Benatto
Modified: 2024-05-01 01:22 UTC (History)
50 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kernel 5.10.210, kernel 5.15.149, kernel 6.1.76, kernel 6.6.15, kernel 6.7.3, kernel 6.8-rc1
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2024:2634 0 None None None 2024-05-01 01:22:47 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:2394 0 None None None 2024-04-30 10:16:41 UTC

Description Marco Benatto 2024-03-12 15:58:23 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memory_section->usage

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-52489 to this issue.

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/20240229155245.1571576-30-lee@kernel.org/T
Comment 1 Marco Benatto 2024-03-12 15:59:24 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2269190]
Comment 5 Justin M. Forbes 2024-03-26 16:44:33 UTC 
This was fixed for Fedora with the 6.7.3 stable kernel updates.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2024-04-30 10:16:39 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:2394 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2394
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