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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-49885" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-10-21T18:01:22.186Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:35:18.866Z" 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-2024-49885" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-49885.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49885" title: "mm, slub: avoid zeroing kmalloc redzone" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm, slub: avoid zeroing kmalloc redzone\n\nSince commit 946fa0dbf2d8 (\"mm/slub: extend redzone check to extra\nallocated kmalloc space than requested\"), setting orig_size treats\nthe wasted space (object_size - orig_size) as a redzone. However with\ninit_on_free=1 we clear the full object-\u003esize, including the redzone.\n\nAdditionally we clear the object metadata, including the stored orig_size,\nmaking it zero, which makes check_object() treat the whole object as a\nredzone.\n\nThese issues lead to the following BUG report with \"slub_debug=FUZ\ninit_on_free=1\":\n\n[ 0.000000] =============================================================================\n[ 0.000000] BUG kmalloc-8 (Not tainted): kmalloc Redzone overwritten\n[ 0.000000] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------\n[ 0.000000]\n[ 0.000000] 0xffff000010032858-0xffff00001003285f @offset=2136. First byte 0x0 instead of 0xcc\n[ 0.000000] FIX kmalloc-8: Restoring kmalloc Redzone 0xffff000010032858-0xffff00001003285f=0xcc\n[ 0.000000] Slab 0xfffffdffc0400c80 objects=36 used=23 fp=0xffff000010032a18 flags=0x3fffe0000000200(workingset|node=0|zone=0|lastcpupid=0x1ffff)\n[ 0.000000] Object 0xffff000010032858 @offset=2136 fp=0xffff0000100328c8\n[ 0.000000]\n[ 0.000000] Redzone ffff000010032850: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc ........\n[ 0.000000] Object ffff000010032858: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc ........\n[ 0.000000] Redzone ffff000010032860: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc ........\n[ 0.000000] Padding ffff0000100328b4: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ............\n[ 0.000000] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc3-next-20240814-00004-g61844c55c3f4 #144\n[ 0.000000] Hardware name: NXP i.MX95 19X19 board (DT)\n[ 0.000000] Call trace:\n[ 0.000000] dump_backtrace+0x90/0xe8\n[ 0.000000] show_stack+0x18/0x24\n[ 0.000000] dump_stack_lvl+0x74/0x8c\n[ 0.000000] dump_stack+0x18/0x24\n[ 0.000000] print_trailer+0x150/0x218\n[ 0.000000] check_object+0xe4/0x454\n[ 0.000000] free_to_partial_list+0x2f8/0x5ec\n\nTo address the issue, use orig_size to clear the used area. And restore\nthe value of orig_size after clear the remaining area.\n\nWhen CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG not defined, (get_orig_size()' directly returns\ns-\u003eobject_size. So when using memset to init the area, the size can simply\nbe orig_size, as orig_size returns object_size when CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG not\nenabled. And orig_size can never be bigger than object_size." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"946fa0dbf2d8923a587f7348adf16563d59f1b3d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7299868253c0e8ba9bf31f6e5198e8eafa1e700b"},{"version":"946fa0dbf2d8923a587f7348adf16563d59f1b3d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7a2e823a19746d54052c625faecf0d2d6c52ee0a"},{"version":"946fa0dbf2d8923a587f7348adf16563d59f1b3d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"83f0440b2f92227fcce9898118ca7fe7e0d64b1f"},{"version":"946fa0dbf2d8923a587f7348adf16563d59f1b3d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"59090e479ac78ae18facd4c58eb332562a23020e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.10.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12","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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