🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2024-0582

HIGH 7.8

Kernel: io_uring: page use-after-free vulnerability via buffer ring mmap

CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

A memory leak flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s io_uring functionality in how a user registers a buffer ring with IORING_REGISTER_PBUF_RING, mmap() it, and then frees it. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

CWE CWE-416
Published Jan 16, 2024
Last Updated Nov 20, 2025
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Affected Versions

Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
All versions affected

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0582 bugs.chromium.org: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2504 bugzilla.redhat.com: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254050 git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c392cbecd8eca4c53f2bf508731257d9d0a21c2d openwall.com: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/24/3

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Jann Horn (Google Project Zero) for reporting this issue.