CVE-2024-53113

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's memory management subsystem. A local user can exploit this vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by crashing the system. When a task is migrated between processor groups (cpusets) concurrently during memory page allocation, a race condition can leave a memory zone pointer uninitialized, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.

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Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.