# CVE-2024-53109: nommu: pass NULL argument to vma\_iter\_prealloc()

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-12-02 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.6

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nommu: pass NULL argument to vma_iter_prealloc() When deleting a vma entry from a maple tree, it has to pass NULL to vma_iter_prealloc() in order to calculate internal state of the tree, but it passed a wrong argument. As a result, nommu kernels crashed upon accessing a vma iterator, such as acct_collect() reading the size of vma entries after do_munmap(). This commit fixes this issue by passing a right argument to the preallocation call.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bbf0ab631cdf1dade6745f137cff98751e6ced7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aceaf33b7666b72dfb86e0aa977be81e3bcbc727
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/247d720b2c5d22f7281437fd6054a138256986ba

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