CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-43854

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-08-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-08-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Description

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 configurations

• 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)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References