Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [6.4,6.11.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20697414
  • published9 Oct 2026
  • disclosed5 Nov 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-50102  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.11.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure in the valid_user_address process. An attacker can access sensitive kernel data by leveraging speculative execution on certain AMD architectures when non-canonical user addresses are processed. This is only exploitable if the system is running on affected AMD Zen 5 or later CPUs, where the AC bit renaming allows the speculation window to remain open.

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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