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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-57977" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-27T02:07:04.943Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:01:07.281Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z" 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-2024-57977" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-57977.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-57977" title: "memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmemcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process\n\nA soft lockup issue was found in the product with about 56,000 tasks were\nin the OOM cgroup, it was traversing them when the soft lockup was\ntriggered.\n\nwatchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s! [VM Thread:1503066]\nCPU: 2 PID: 1503066 Comm: VM Thread Kdump: loaded Tainted: G\nHardware name: Huawei Cloud OpenStack Nova, BIOS\nRIP: 0010:console_unlock+0x343/0x540\nRSP: 0000:ffffb751447db9a0 EFLAGS: 00000247 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff13\nRAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000ffffffff\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 0000000000000247\nRBP: ffffffffafc71f90 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000040\nR10: 0000000000000080 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffffafc74bd0\nR13: ffffffffaf60a220 R14: 0000000000000247 R15: 0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00007f2fe6ad91f0 CR3: 00000004b2076003 CR4: 0000000000360ee0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n vprintk_emit+0x193/0x280\n printk+0x52/0x6e\n dump_task+0x114/0x130\n mem_cgroup_scan_tasks+0x76/0x100\n dump_header+0x1fe/0x210\n oom_kill_process+0xd1/0x100\n out_of_memory+0x125/0x570\n mem_cgroup_out_of_memory+0xb5/0xd0\n try_charge+0x720/0x770\n mem_cgroup_try_charge+0x86/0x180\n mem_cgroup_try_charge_delay+0x1c/0x40\n do_anonymous_page+0xb5/0x390\n handle_mm_fault+0xc4/0x1f0\n\nThis is because thousands of processes are in the OOM cgroup, it takes a\nlong time to traverse all of them. As a result, this lead to soft lockup\nin the OOM process.\n\nTo fix this issue, call 'cond_resched' in the 'mem_cgroup_scan_tasks'\nfunction per 1000 iterations. For global OOM, call\n'touch_softlockup_watchdog' per 1000 iterations to avoid this issue." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9cbb78bb314360a860a8b23723971cb6fcb54176","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"72f2c0b7c152c2983ed51d48c3272cab4f34d965"},{"version":"9cbb78bb314360a860a8b23723971cb6fcb54176","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"110399858194c71f11afefad6e7be9e3876b284f"},{"version":"9cbb78bb314360a860a8b23723971cb6fcb54176","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a9042dbc1ed4bf25a5f5c699d10c3d676abf8ca2"},{"version":"9cbb78bb314360a860a8b23723971cb6fcb54176","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0a09d56e1682c951046bf15542b3e9553046c9f6"},{"version":"9cbb78bb314360a860a8b23723971cb6fcb54176","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"972486d37169fe85035e81b8c5dff21f70df1173"},{"version":"9cbb78bb314360a860a8b23723971cb6fcb54176","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c3a3741db8c1202aa959c77df3a4c361612d1eb1"},{"version":"9cbb78bb314360a860a8b23723971cb6fcb54176","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"46576834291869457d4772bb7df72d7c2bb3d57f"},{"version":"9cbb78bb314360a860a8b23723971cb6fcb54176","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ade81479c7dda1ce3eedb215c78bc615bbd04f06"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.6"},{"version":"5.4.291","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.235","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.179","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.130","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.80","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","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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