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Tracker / CVE-2024-41077

CVE-2024-41077

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: null_blk: fix validation of block size Block size should be between 512 and PAGE_SIZE and be a power of 2. The current check does not validate this, so update the check. Without this patch, null_blk would Oops due to a null pointer deref when loaded with bs=1536 [1]. [axboe: remove unnecessary braces and != 0 check]

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 5.10.223
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.164
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.101
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.42
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.9.11

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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