Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [5.3,6.1.191)[6.2,6.6.62)[6.7,6.11.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.6% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20698014
  • published10 Oct 2026
  • disclosed21 Nov 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-53094  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.1.191, 6.6.62, 6.11.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in the siw process. An attacker can cause memory corruption, leak kernel memory contents, and trigger a denial of service by sending specially crafted RDMA Read Requests over a network connection, which can result in kernel panics, data corruption, or session termination at the attacker's discretion.

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