# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-39477"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-05T06:55:07.268Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:33:30.787Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
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-2024-39477"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-39477.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-39477"
title: "mm/hugetlb: do not call vma_add_reservation upon ENOMEM"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/hugetlb: do not call vma_add_reservation upon ENOMEM\n\nsysbot reported a splat [1] on __unmap_hugepage_range().  This is because\nvma_needs_reservation() can return -ENOMEM if\nallocate_file_region_entries() fails to allocate the file_region struct\nfor the reservation.\n\nCheck for that and do not call vma_add_reservation() if that is the case,\notherwise region_abort() and region_del() will see that we do not have any\nfile_regions.\n\nIf we detect that vma_needs_reservation() returned -ENOMEM, we clear the\nhugetlb_restore_reserve flag as if this reservation was still consumed, so\nfree_huge_folio() will not increment the resv count.\n\n[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/0000000000004096100617c58d54@google.com/T/#ma5983bc1ab18a54910da83416b3f89f3c7ee43aa"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"df7a6d1f64056aec572162c5d35ed9ff86ece6f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aa998f9dcb34c28448f86e8f5490f20d5eb0eac7"},{"version":"df7a6d1f64056aec572162c5d35ed9ff86ece6f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8daf9c702ee7f825f0de8600abff764acfedea13"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"6.9.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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