CVE-2024-57977

5.5 · MEDIUM

Published Feb 27, 2025 linux CWE-667 EPSS 0.20% (10th pctl) CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

CVE-2024-57977 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting linux linux_kernel. It was published on February 27, 2025 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM).

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5, rated MEDIUM. It requires local or adjacent network access to exploit. Some level of privileges is required for exploitation.

Technical Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process

A soft lockup issue was found in the product with about 56,000 tasks were

in the OOM cgroup, it was traversing them when the soft lockup was

triggered.

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s! [VM Thread:1503066]

CPU: 2 PID: 1503066 Comm: VM Thread Kdump: loaded Tainted: G

Hardware name: Huawei Cloud OpenStack Nova, BIOS

RIP: 0010:console_unlock+0x343/0x540

RSP: 0000:ffffb751447db9a0 EFLAGS: 00000247 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff13

RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000ffffffff

RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 0000000000000247

RBP: ffffffffafc71f90 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000040

R10: 0000000000000080 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffffafc74bd0

R13: ffffffffaf60a220 R14: 0000000000000247 R15: 0000000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 00007f2fe6ad91f0 CR3: 00000004b2076003 CR4: 0000000000360ee0

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Status
linux	linux_kernel	>= 3.6, < 6.12.13	Affected

References

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2024-57977?

CVE-2024-57977 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting linux linux_kernel. It was published on February 27, 2025 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM).

How severe is CVE-2024-57977?

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5, rated MEDIUM. It requires local or adjacent network access to exploit. Some level of privileges is required for exploitation.

How do I fix or remediate CVE-2024-57977?

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