CVE-2024-42251

MEDIUMNVD 5.55.5—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2024-08-08. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
5.5
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

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

mm: page_ref: remove folio_try_get_rcu()

The below bug was reported on a non-SMP kernel:

[ 275.267158][ T4335] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 275.267949][ T4335] kernel BUG at include/linux/page_ref.h:275! [ 275.268526][ T4335] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] KASAN PTI [ 275.269001][ T4335] CPU: 0 PID: 4335 Comm: trinity-c3 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc4-00061-gefa7df3e3bb5 #1 [ 275.269787][ T4335] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014 [ 275.270679][ T4335] RIP: 0010:try_get_folio (include/linux/page_ref.h:275 (discriminator 3) mm/gup.c:79 (discriminator 3)) [ 275.272813][ T4335] RSP: 0018:ffffc90005dcf650 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 275.273346][ T4335] RAX: 0000000000000246 RBX: ffffea00066e0000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 275.274032][ T4335] RDX: fffff94000cdc007 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffea00066e0034 [ 275.274719][ T4335] RBP: ffffea00066e0000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: fffff94000cdc006 [ 275.275404][ T4335] R10: ffffea00066e0037 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000136 [ 275.276106][ T4335] R13: ffffea00066e0034 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffffea00066e0008 [ 275.276790][ T4335] FS: 00007fa2f9b61740(0000) GS:ffffffff89d0d000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 275.277570][ T4335] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 275.278143][ T4335] CR2: 00007fa2f6c00000 CR3: 0000000134b04000 CR4: 00000000000406f0 [ 275.278833][ T4335] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 275.279521][ T4335] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 275.280201][ T4335] Call Trace: [ 275.280499][ T4335] [ 275.280751][ T4335] ? die (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:421 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:434 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:447) [ 275.281087][ T4335] ? do_trap (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:112 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:153) [ 275.281463][ T4335] ? try_get_folio (include/linux/page_ref.h:275 (discriminator 3) mm/gup.c:79 (discriminator 3)) [ 275.281884][ T4335] ? try_get_folio (include/linux/page_ref.h:275 (discriminator 3) mm/gup.c:79 (discriminator 3)) [ 275.282300][ T4335] ? do_error_trap (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:174) [ 275.282711][ T4335] ? try_get_folio (include/linux/page_ref.h:275 (discriminator 3) mm/gup.c:79 (discriminator 3)) [ 275.283129][ T4335] ? handle_invalid_op (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:212) [ 275.283561][ T4335] ? try_get_folio (include/linux/page_ref.h:275 (discriminator 3) mm/gup.c:79 (discriminator 3)) [ 275.283990][ T4335] ? exc_invalid_op (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:264) [ 275.284415][ T4335] ? asm_exc_invalid_op (arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:568) [ 275.284859][ T4335] ? try_get_folio (include/linux/page_ref.h:275 (discriminator 3) mm/gup.c:79 (discriminator 3)) [ 275.285278][ T4335] try_grab_folio (mm/gup.c:148) [ 275.285684][ T4335] __get_user_pages (mm/gup.c:1297 (discriminator 1)) [ 275.286111][ T4335] ? __pfx___get_user_pages (mm/gup.c:1188) [ 275.286579][ T4335] ? __pfx_validate_chain (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3825) [ 275.287034][ T4335] ? mark_lock (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4656 (discriminator 1)) [ 275.287416][ T4335] __gup_longterm_locked (mm/gup.c:1509 mm/gup.c:2209) [ 275.288192][ T4335] ? __pfx___gup_longterm_locked (mm/gup.c:2204) [ 275.288697][ T4335] ? __pfx_lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5722) [ 275.289135][ T4335] ? __pfx___might_resched (kernel/sched/core.c:10106) [ 275.289595][ T4335] pin_user_pages_remote (mm/gup.c:3350) [ 275.290041][ T4335] ? __pfx_pin_user_pages_remote (mm/gup.c:3350) [ 275.290545][ T4335] ? find_held_lock (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5244 (discriminator 1)) [ 275.290961][ T4335] ? mm_access (kernel/fork.c:1573) [ 275.291353][ T4335] process_vm_rw_single_vec+0x142/0x360 [ 275.291900][ T4335] ? __pfx_process_vm_rw_single_vec+0x10/0x10 [ 275.292471][ T4335] ? mm_access (kernel/fork.c:1573) [ 275.292859][ T4335] process_vm_rw_core+0x272/0x4e0 [ 275.293384][ T4335] ? hlock_class (a ---truncated---

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
11.3%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 8, 2024

Last Modified

September 6, 2024

References (3)

Patch Availability(11)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-24.04-edge (6.8.0-48.48) @ noble2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-nvidia-lowlatency-64k (6.8.0-1017.19.1) @ noble2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oracle-edge (6.8.0-1015.15~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-ibm-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1014.14) @ noble2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-edge (6.8.0-1017.20~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-lowlatency-hwe-24.04-edge (6.8.0-48.48.3) @ noble2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gkeop-6.8 (6.8.0-1002.4) @ noble2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gke (6.8.0-1013.17) @ noble2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oem-24.04a (6.8.0-1016.16) @ noble2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi (6.8.0-1014.16) @ noble2026-05-23ubuntu
linuxKernel @ 6.6.42—osv

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.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(10)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 12× in last 7d / 47× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 103 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-07-23 14:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-07-23 02:39 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-07-22 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-07-21 15:23 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-07-21 15:23 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-07-20 17:06 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-07-19 14:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-07-19 14:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-07-19 02:28 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-07-19 02:28 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-07-18 10:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  12. 2026-07-18 10:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-07-16 17:02 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-07-15 16:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-07-15 16:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-07-15 01:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-07-15 01:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-07-13 22:29 UTCEPSS rescore
  19. 2026-07-13 12:07 UTCOSV refresh
  20. 2026-07-13 06:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-07-12 05:45 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-07-12 05:45 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-07-11 08:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-07-09 19:09 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-07-09 19:09 UTCEPSS rescore
Show 75 more
  1. 2026-07-08 15:14 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-07-07 13:45 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-07-06 16:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-07-06 02:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-07-06 02:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-07-04 06:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-07-01 15:05 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-06-30 23:21 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-06-30 23:21 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-06-29 14:05 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-06-28 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  12. 2026-06-28 14:06 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-06-28 04:55 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-06-28 04:55 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-06-27 03:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-06-27 03:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-06-25 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-06-25 06:01 UTCOSV refresh
  19. 2026-06-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  20. 2026-06-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-06-23 21:32 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-06-23 21:32 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-06-22 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-06-22 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-06-21 14:55 UTCEPSS rescore
  26. 2026-06-21 01:58 UTCEPSS rescore
  27. 2026-06-21 01:58 UTCEPSS rescore
  28. 2026-06-19 19:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  29. 2026-06-19 19:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  30. 2026-06-18 17:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  31. 2026-06-18 17:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  32. 2026-06-17 17:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  33. 2026-06-16 17:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  34. 2026-06-16 17:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  35. 2026-06-15 17:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  36. 2026-06-14 23:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  37. 2026-06-13 22:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  38. 2026-06-13 22:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  39. 2026-06-13 22:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  40. 2026-06-12 23:11 UTCEPSS rescore
  41. 2026-06-12 23:11 UTCEPSS rescore
  42. 2026-06-11 13:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  43. 2026-06-10 22:18 UTCEPSS rescore
  44. 2026-06-10 13:21 UTCEPSS rescore
  45. 2026-06-08 14:16 UTCEPSS rescore
  46. 2026-06-08 14:16 UTCEPSS rescore
  47. 2026-06-08 00:58 UTCOSV refresh
  48. 2026-06-07 15:24 UTCEPSS rescore
  49. 2026-06-07 15:24 UTCEPSS rescore
  50. 2026-06-06 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  51. 2026-06-06 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  52. 2026-06-05 22:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  53. 2026-06-05 22:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  54. 2026-06-05 06:09 UTCEPSS rescore
  55. 2026-06-05 06:09 UTCEPSS rescore
  56. 2026-06-04 13:11 UTCEPSS rescore
  57. 2026-06-04 13:11 UTCEPSS rescore
  58. 2026-06-02 20:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  59. 2026-06-02 20:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  60. 2026-06-01 13:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  61. 2026-06-01 13:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  62. 2026-05-31 22:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  63. 2026-05-31 22:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  64. 2026-05-31 00:16 UTCEPSS rescore
  65. 2026-05-31 00:15 UTCEPSS rescore
  66. 2026-05-29 13:43 UTCEPSS rescore
  67. 2026-05-28 13:44 UTCEPSS rescore
  68. 2026-05-28 13:44 UTCEPSS rescore
  69. 2026-05-27 13:40 UTCEPSS rescore
  70. 2026-05-27 13:40 UTCEPSS rescore
  71. 2026-05-26 13:43 UTCEPSS rescore
  72. 2026-05-26 13:43 UTCEPSS rescore
  73. 2026-05-26 07:18 UTCEPSS rescore
  74. 2026-05-26 07:18 UTCEPSS rescore
  75. 2026-05-26 07:18 UTCEPSS rescore

Related CVEs(same product + same vendor + same CWE)

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2024-42251?
CVE-2024-42251 is a medium vulnerability published on August 8, 2024. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: pageref: remove foliotrygetrcu() The below bug was reported on a non-SMP kernel: [ 275.267158][ T4335] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 275.267949][ T4335] kernel BUG at include/linux/page_ref.h:275! [ 275.268526][ T4335]…
When was CVE-2024-42251 disclosed?
CVE-2024-42251 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 8, 2024, with the most recent update on September 6, 2024. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2024-42251 actively exploited?
CVE-2024-42251 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 11.3% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2024-42251?
CVE-2024-42251 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2024-42251?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2024-42251, 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.

Dependency Blast Radius

Explore the affected products and dependency analysis for CVE-2024-42251

Explore →

Is Your Infrastructure Affected by CVE-2024-42251?

EchelonGraph automatically scans your cloud infrastructure and maps CVE exposure using blast radius analysis.

Start Free Scan →Browse All CVEs