CVE-2024-40949

MEDIUMNVD 5.55.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2024-07-12. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
5.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

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

mm: shmem: fix getting incorrect lruvec when replacing a shmem folio

When testing shmem swapin, I encountered the warning below on my machine. The reason is that replacing an old shmem folio with a new one causes mem_cgroup_migrate() to clear the old folio's memcg data. As a result, the old folio cannot get the correct memcg's lruvec needed to remove itself from the LRU list when it is being freed. This could lead to possible serious problems, such as LRU list crashes due to holding the wrong LRU lock, and incorrect LRU statistics.

To fix this issue, we can fallback to use the mem_cgroup_replace_folio() to replace the old shmem folio.

[ 5241.100311] page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x5d9960 [ 5241.100317] head: order:4 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0 [ 5241.100319] flags: 0x17fffe0000040068(uptodate|lru|head|swapbacked|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x3ffff) [ 5241.100323] raw: 17fffe0000040068 fffffdffd6687948 fffffdffd69ae008 0000000000000000 [ 5241.100325] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 [ 5241.100326] head: 17fffe0000040068 fffffdffd6687948 fffffdffd69ae008 0000000000000000 [ 5241.100327] head: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 [ 5241.100328] head: 17fffe0000000204 fffffdffd6665801 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 [ 5241.100329] head: 0000000a00000010 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 [ 5241.100330] page dumped because: VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO(!memcg && !mem_cgroup_disabled()) [ 5241.100338] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 5241.100339] WARNING: CPU: 19 PID: 78402 at include/linux/memcontrol.h:775 folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x140/0x150 [...] [ 5241.100374] pc : folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x140/0x150 [ 5241.100375] lr : folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x138/0x150 [ 5241.100376] sp : ffff80008b38b930 [...] [ 5241.100398] Call trace: [ 5241.100399] folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x140/0x150 [ 5241.100401] __page_cache_release+0x90/0x300 [ 5241.100404] __folio_put+0x50/0x108 [ 5241.100406] shmem_replace_folio+0x1b4/0x240 [ 5241.100409] shmem_swapin_folio+0x314/0x528 [ 5241.100411] shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x3b4/0x930 [ 5241.100412] shmem_fault+0x74/0x160 [ 5241.100414] __do_fault+0x40/0x218 [ 5241.100417] do_shared_fault+0x34/0x1b0 [ 5241.100419] do_fault+0x40/0x168 [ 5241.100420] handle_pte_fault+0x80/0x228 [ 5241.100422] __handle_mm_fault+0x1c4/0x440 [ 5241.100424] handle_mm_fault+0x60/0x1f0 [ 5241.100426] do_page_fault+0x120/0x488 [ 5241.100429] do_translation_fault+0x4c/0x68 [ 5241.100431] do_mem_abort+0x48/0xa0 [ 5241.100434] el0_da+0x38/0xc0 [ 5241.100436] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x68/0xc0 [ 5241.100437] el0t_64_sync+0x14c/0x150 [ 5241.100439] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

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CVSS v3
5.5
EG Score
5.5(medium)
EG Risk
25(Track)
EG Risk 25/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity55% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
13%
KEV
Not listed

Published

July 12, 2024

Last Modified

August 5, 2026

Patch Availability(8)

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

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Data Freshness Timeline

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2024-40949?
CVE-2024-40949 is a medium vulnerability published on July 12, 2024. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: shmem: fix getting incorrect lruvec when replacing a shmem folio When testing shmem swapin, I encountered the warning below on my machine. The reason is that replacing an old shmem folio with a new one causes memcgroupmigrate()…
When was CVE-2024-40949 disclosed?
CVE-2024-40949 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on July 12, 2024, with the most recent update on August 5, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2024-40949 actively exploited?
CVE-2024-40949 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 87.4% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2024-40949?
CVE-2024-40949 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2024-40949?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2024-40949, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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