Security Advisory
CVE-2024-50065
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ntfs3: Change to non-blocking allocation in ntfs_d_hash
d_hash is done while under "rcu-walk" and should not sleep.
__get_name() allocates using GFP_KERNEL, having the possibility
to sleep when under memory pressure. Change the allocation to
GFP_NOWAIT.
Published Date
October 21, 2024
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory