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Tracker / CVE-2024-26816

CVE-2024-26816

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86, relocs: Ignore relocations in .notes section When building with CONFIG_XEN_PV=y, .text symbols are emitted into the .notes section so that Xen can find the "startup_xen" entry point. This information is used prior to booting the kernel, so relocations are not useful. In fact, performing relocations against the .notes section means that the KASLR base is exposed since /sys/kernel/notes is world-readable. To avoid leaking the KASLR base without breaking unprivileged tools that are expecting to read /sys/kernel/notes, skip performing relocations in the .notes section. The values readable in .notes are then identical to those found in System.map.

Affected products and versions

debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.23 → 4.19.311
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.273
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.153
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.83
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.214
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.23
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.7.11
linux linux_kernel · 6.8 → 6.8.2
linux linux_kernel · 6.8.3 → 6.8.12

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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