Buffer Overflow Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [3.0,5.4.281)[5.5,5.10.223)[5.11,5.15.164)[5.16,6.1.101)[6.2,6.6.42)[6.7,6.9.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20696537
  • published9 Oct 2026
  • disclosed29 Jul 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-41065  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.4.281, 5.10.223, 5.15.164, 6.1.101, 6.6.42, 6.9.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in the dtl_file_read process. An attacker can cause a kernel crash or potentially execute arbitrary code by triggering a copy operation from kernel memory to userspace that is not properly whitelisted when CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY is enabled. This is only exploitable if the system is configured with CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY and the attacker has access to read from /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/dtl/cpu-*.

Note: The Linux kernel project assigns a CVE to every bug fix it ships, whether or not the bug has been shown to be exploitable. This advisory was generated from that process and has not been individually assessed for exploitability. See the kernel's CVE process documentation: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/cve.rst

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1