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CVE-2023-52939

MEDIUM 5.5

mm: memcg: fix NULL pointer in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath()

CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: memcg: fix NULL pointer in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath() As commit 18365225f044 ("hwpoison, memcg: forcibly uncharge LRU pages"), hwpoison will forcibly uncharg a LRU hwpoisoned page, the folio_memcg could be NULl, then, mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath() could occurs a NULL pointer dereference, let's do not record the foreign writebacks for folio memcg is null in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty() to fix it.

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Published Mar 27, 2025
Last Updated May 11, 2026
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Affected Versions

Linux / Linux
97b27821b4854ca744946dae32a3f2fd55bcd5bc < b79ba5953f6fdc5559389ad415620bffc24f024b 97b27821b4854ca744946dae32a3f2fd55bcd5bc < ac86f547ca1002aec2ef66b9e64d03f45bbbfbb9
Linux / Linux
5.4

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b79ba5953f6fdc5559389ad415620bffc24f024b git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac86f547ca1002aec2ef66b9e64d03f45bbbfbb9