Vulnerability · Published Jan 11, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2024-41932sched: fix warning in sched_setaffinity

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 19% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 81.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: fix warning in sched_setaffinity Commit 8f9ea86fdf99b added some logic to sched_setaffinity that included a WARN when a per-task affinity assignment races with a cpuset update. Specifically, we can have a race where a cpuset update results in the task affinity no longer being a subset of the cpuset. That's fine; we have a fallback to instead use the cpuset mask. However, we have a WARN set up that will trigger if the cpuset mask has no overlap at all with the requested task affinity. This shouldn't be a warning condition; its trivial to create this condition. Reproduced the warning by the following setup: - $PID inside a cpuset cgroup - another thread repeatedly switching the cpuset cpus from 1-2 to just 1 - another thread repeatedly setting the $PID affinity (via taskset) to 2

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:13linux6.12.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-41932
Debian:14linux6.12.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-58.60USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-58.60UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1027.29USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1027.29UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1027.29~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1027.29~22.04.1USN-7451-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1027.32UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1027.32USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.116.11.0-1012.12~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1027.32~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1027.32~22.04.1USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia6.8.0-1014.15UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia6.8.0-1014.15USN-7468-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1028.30UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1028.30USN-7450-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.116.11.0-1011.11~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1028.30~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1028.30~22.04.1USN-7452-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1023.27USN-7450-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1023.27UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1010.12USN-7450-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1010.12UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.116.11.0-21.21~24.04.1USN-7379-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.116.11.0-21.21~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-58.60~22.04.1USN-7449-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-58.60~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1024.24UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1024.24USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1024.24~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-58.60.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-58.60.1USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.116.11.0-1011.12~24.04.1USN-7381-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-58.60.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-58.60.1~22.04.1USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1026.29USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1026.29UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.116.11.0-1007.7UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1026.29~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1026.29~22.04.1USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1026.29.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1026.29.1USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra6.8.0-1008.8UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.116.11.0-1017.17USN-7382-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.116.11.0-1017.17UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.86.8.0-1026.26USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.86.8.0-1026.26UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1024.25UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1024.25USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1024.25~22.04.1USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1024.25~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1028.32UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1028.32USN-7524-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv6.8.0-58.60.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.86.8.0-58.60.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-xilinx6.8.0-1017.18UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41932

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 8f9ea86fdf99b81458cc21fc1c591fcd4a0fa1f4 – before d35130036d327b6c175d95db9ea8d64e1abd4a1b8f9ea86fdf99b81458cc21fc1c591fcd4a0fa1f4 – before 5c3fb75f538cfcb886f6dfeb497d99fc2f263ee68f9ea86fdf99b81458cc21fc1c591fcd4a0fa1f4 – before 70ee7947a29029736a1a06c73a48ff37674a851b
Linux Linux 6.2

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