Out-of-Bounds Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [4.6,6.1.191)[6.2,6.6.160)[6.7,6.10.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20697182
  • published9 Oct 2026
  • disclosed27 Sept 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-46834  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.10.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds via the ethtool process. An attacker can cause kernel memory corruption, leak sensitive data, and trigger system crashes by supplying an indirection table containing out-of-bounds channel IDs and issuing a channel change request. This is only exploitable if the attacker has CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges within a network namespace containing an RSS-capable network device.

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

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