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    "id": "CVE-2024-49964",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49964",
    "idYear": 2024,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2024-10-21T18:02:15.755Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-11T20:42:57.013Z",
    "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"
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    "facts": {
      "title": "mm/hugetlb: fix memfd_pin_folios free_huge_pages leak",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/hugetlb: fix memfd_pin_folios free_huge_pages leak\n\nmemfd_pin_folios followed by unpin_folios fails to restore free_huge_pages\nif the pages were not already faulted in, because the folio refcount for\npages created by memfd_alloc_folio never goes to 0.  memfd_pin_folios\nneeds another folio_put to undo the folio_try_get below:\n\nmemfd_alloc_folio()\n  alloc_hugetlb_folio_nodemask()\n    dequeue_hugetlb_folio_nodemask()\n      dequeue_hugetlb_folio_node_exact()\n        folio_ref_unfreeze(folio, 1);    ; adds 1 refcount\n  folio_try_get()                        ; adds 1 refcount\n  hugetlb_add_to_page_cache()            ; adds 512 refcount (on x86)\n\nWith the fix, after memfd_pin_folios + unpin_folios, the refcount for the\n(unfaulted) page is 512, which is correct, as the refcount for a faulted\nunpinned page is 513.",
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              "version": "6.12",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix",
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