CVE-2024-26843 Affecting kernel-tools package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.16.1.el8_10
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ROCKY8-KERNELTOOLS-7783743
- published 22 Aug 2024
- disclosed 17 Apr 2024
Introduced: 17 Apr 2024
CVE-2024-26843 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 kernel-tools 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-tools package and not the kernel-tools 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.
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-26843
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/156cb12ffdcf33883304f0db645e1eadae712fe0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4aa36b62c3eaa869860bf78b1146e9f2b5f782a9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fff3d735baea104017f2e3c245e27cdc79f2426
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/700c3f642c32721f246e09d3a9511acf40ae42be
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf3d6813601fe496de7f023435e31bfffa74ae70
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de1034b38a346ef6be25fe8792f5d1e0684d5ff4
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html