CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-42229

4.1 MEDIUM Published 2024-07-30 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-07-30
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: aead,cipher - zeroize key buffer after use I.G 9.7.B for FIPS 140-3 specifies that variables temporarily holding cryptographic information should be zeroized once they are no longer needed. Accomplish this by using kfree_sensitive for buffers that previously held the private key.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 5.10.222) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.163) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.98) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.39) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.9.9)

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