CVE-2024-35882 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: SUNRPC: Fix a slow server-side memory leak with RPC-over-TCP Jan Schunk reports that his small NFS servers suffer from memory exhaustion after just a few days. A bisect shows that commit e18e157bb5c8 ("SUNRPC: Send RPC message on TCP with a single sock_sendmsg() call") is the first bad commit. That commit assumed that sock_sendmsg() releases all the pages in the underlying bio_vec array, but the reality is that it doesn't. svc_xprt_release() releases the rqst's response pages, but the record marker page fragment isn't one of those, so it is never released. This is a narrow fix that can be applied to stable kernels. A more extensive fix is in the works.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Linux	Linux Kernel

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References

Link	Providers
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05258a0a69b3c5d2c003f818702c0a52b6fea861
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ba1291172f935e6b6fe703161a948f3347400b8
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2ebedf7bcd17a1194a0a18122c885eb578ee882
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024051945-CVE-2024-35882-f7cf@gregkh/T
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35882
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-35882

History

Mon, 11 May 2026 20:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2024-05-19T08:34:39.185Z

Updated: 2026-05-11T20:13:03.890Z

Reserved: 2024-05-17T13:50:33.112Z

Link: CVE-2024-35882

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-05-23T19:01:25.019Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-19T09:15:09.447

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:21:07.143

Link: CVE-2024-35882

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-05-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-35882 - Bugzilla

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