CVE-2024-23851 Affecting kernel package, versions <0:4.14.336-257.562.amzn2
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-KERNEL-7447392
- published 13 Jul 2024
- disclosed 23 Jan 2024
Introduced: 23 Jan 2024
CVE-2024-23851 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 kernel to version 0:4.14.336-257.562.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2024-2475.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel package and not the kernel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.
See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.
copy_params in drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 6.7.1 can attempt to allocate more than INT_MAX bytes, and crash, because of a missing param_kernel->data_size check. This is related to ctl_ioctl.
References
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-23851
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/dm-devel/msg56574.html
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/dm-devel/msg56694.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZOU3745CWCDZ7EMKMXB2OEEIB5Q3IWM/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html
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