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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-36892" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-30T15:28:58.528Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:16:30.669Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:11.582Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-36892" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-36892.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36892" title: "mm/slub: avoid zeroing outside-object freepointer for single free" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/slub: avoid zeroing outside-object freepointer for single free\n\nCommit 284f17ac13fe (\"mm/slub: handle bulk and single object freeing\nseparately\") splits single and bulk object freeing in two functions\nslab_free() and slab_free_bulk() which leads slab_free() to call\nslab_free_hook() directly instead of slab_free_freelist_hook().\n\nIf `init_on_free` is set, slab_free_hook() zeroes the object.\nAfterward, if `slub_debug=F` and `CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED` are\nset, the do_slab_free() slowpath executes freelist consistency\nchecks and try to decode a zeroed freepointer which leads to a\n\"Freepointer corrupt\" detection in check_object().\n\nDuring bulk free, slab_free_freelist_hook() isn't affected as it always\nsets it objects freepointer using set_freepointer() to maintain its\nreconstructed freelist after `init_on_free`.\n\nFor single free, object's freepointer thus needs to be avoided when\nstored outside the object if `init_on_free` is set. The freepointer left\nas is, check_object() may later detect an invalid pointer value due to\nobjects overflow.\n\nTo reproduce, set `slub_debug=FU init_on_free=1 log_level=7` on the\ncommand line of a kernel build with `CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED=y`.\n\ndmesg sample log:\n[ 10.708715] =============================================================================\n[ 10.710323] BUG kmalloc-rnd-05-32 (Tainted: G B T ): Freepointer corrupt\n[ 10.712695] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------\n[ 10.712695]\n[ 10.712695] Slab 0xffffd8bdc400d580 objects=32 used=4 fp=0xffff9d9a80356f80 flags=0x200000000000a00(workingset|slab|node=0|zone=2)\n[ 10.716698] Object 0xffff9d9a80356600 @offset=1536 fp=0x7ee4f480ce0ecd7c\n[ 10.716698]\n[ 10.716698] Bytes b4 ffff9d9a803565f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n[ 10.720703] Object ffff9d9a80356600: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n[ 10.720703] Object ffff9d9a80356610: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n[ 10.724696] Padding ffff9d9a8035666c: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n[ 10.724696] Padding ffff9d9a8035667c: 00 00 00 00 ....\n[ 10.724696] FIX kmalloc-rnd-05-32: Object at 0xffff9d9a80356600 not freed" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"284f17ac13fe34ae9eecbe57bb91553374d9b855","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"56900355485f6e82114b18c812edd57fd7970dcb"},{"version":"284f17ac13fe34ae9eecbe57bb91553374d9b855","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8f828aa48812ced28aa39cb3cfe55ef2444d03dd"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.8.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.8.*"},{"version":"6.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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