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{"bugzilla": {"description": "kernel: Revert \"readahead: properly shorten readahead when falling back to do_page_cache_ra()\"", "id": "2337337", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2337337"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "5.5", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "status": "draft"}, "details": ["In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nRevert \"readahead: properly shorten readahead when falling back to do_page_cache_ra()\"\nThis reverts commit 7c877586da3178974a8a94577b6045a48377ff25.\nAnders and Philippe have reported that recent kernels occasionally hang\nwhen used with NFS in readahead code. The problem has been bisected to\n7c877586da3 (\"readahead: properly shorten readahead when falling back to\ndo_page_cache_ra()\"). The cause of the problem is that ra->size can be\nshrunk by read_pages() call and subsequently we end up calling\ndo_page_cache_ra() with negative (read huge positive) number of pages. \nLet's revert 7c877586da3 for now until we can find a proper way how the\nlogic in read_pages() and page_cache_ra_order() can coexist. This can\nlead to reduced readahead throughput due to readahead window confusion but\nthat's better than outright hangs."], "name": "CVE-2024-57839", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}], "public_date": "2025-01-11T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-57839\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57839\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025011101-CVE-2024-57839-daf6@gregkh/T"], "threat_severity": "Low"}