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Tracker / CVE-2024-39499

CVE-2024-39499

High 7.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmci: prevent speculation leaks by sanitizing event in event_deliver() Coverity spotted that event_msg is controlled by user-space, event_msg->event_data.event is passed to event_deliver() and used as an index without sanitization. This change ensures that the event index is sanitized to mitigate any possibility of speculative information leaks. This bug was discovered and resolved using Coverity Static Analysis Security Testing (SAST) by Synopsys, Inc. Only compile tested, no access to HW.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 3.9 → 4.19.317
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.279
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.162
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.95
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.221
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.35
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.9.6

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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