CVE-2024-38575 Affecting kernel-rt-modules package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.16.1.rt7.357.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on AlmaLinux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALMALINUX8-KERNELRTMODULES-7659850
  • published9 Aug 2024
  • disclosed14 Aug 2024

Introduced: 9 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-38575  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade AlmaLinux:8 kernel-rt-modules to version 0:4.18.0-553.16.1.rt7.357.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALSA-2024:5102.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-modules package and not the kernel-rt-modules package as distributed by AlmaLinux. See How to fix? for AlmaLinux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: brcmfmac: pcie: handle randbuf allocation failure

The kzalloc() in brcmf_pcie_download_fw_nvram() will return null if the physical memory has run out. As a result, if we use get_random_bytes() to generate random bytes in the randbuf, the null pointer dereference bug will happen.

In order to prevent allocation failure, this patch adds a separate function using buffer on kernel stack to generate random bytes in the randbuf, which could prevent the kernel stack from overflow.

CVSS Scores

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