CVE-2024-42241

kernel: mm/shmem: disable PMD-sized page cache if needed

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · August 7, 2024

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A denial of service vulnerability was found in the Linux Kernel. In architectures such as ARM64 where the base page size is 64KB, a 512MB page cache could lead to a software crash.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-99 · Improper Control of Resource Identifiers ('Resource Injection')