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Tracker / CVE-2024-43854

CVE-2024-43854

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: initialize integrity buffer to zero before writing it to media Metadata added by bio_integrity_prep is using plain kmalloc, which leads to random kernel memory being written media. For PI metadata this is limited to the app tag that isn't used by kernel generated metadata, but for non-PI metadata the entire buffer leaks kernel memory. Fix this by adding the __GFP_ZERO flag to allocations for writes.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 2.6.27 → 5.15.165
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.103
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.44
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.10.3

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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