References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to nvd@nist.gov.

Change History

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/581b2027af0018944ba301d68e7af45c6d1128b5

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d130b5fdd42254d92948d06347940276140c927e

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

afs: Fix page leak

There's a loop in afs_extend_writeback() that adds extra pages to a write
we want to make to improve the efficiency of the writeback by making it
larger.  This loop stops, however, if we hit a page we can't write back
from immediately, but it doesn't get rid of the page ref we speculatively
acquired.

This was caused by the removal of the cleanup loop when the code switched
from using find_get_pages_contig()

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/581b2027af0018944ba301d68e7af45c6d1128b5 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d130b5fdd42254d92948d06347940276140c927e [No types assigned]