CVE-2024-26843 Affecting kernel-debug-devel package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.16.1.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-KERNELDEBUGDEVEL-7783732
  • published22 Aug 2024
  • disclosed17 Apr 2024

Introduced: 17 Apr 2024

CVE-2024-26843  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 kernel-debug-devel to version 0:4.18.0-553.16.1.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2024:5101.

NVD Description

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

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

efi: runtime: Fix potential overflow of soft-reserved region size

md_size will have been narrowed if we have >= 4GB worth of pages in a soft-reserved region.

CVSS Scores

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