Buffer Overflow Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [5.15,6.1.191)[6.2,6.6.160)[6.7,6.12.13)[6.13,6.13.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20698197
  • published10 Oct 2026
  • disclosed26 Feb 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Feb 2025

CVE-2024-57999  (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, 6.12.13, 6.13.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in the iommu_table_reserve_pages process. An attacker can cause out-of-bounds memory access and arbitrary kernel memory modification by supplying crafted parameters via VFIO container ioctl or during device initialization, potentially leading to kernel crashes or unauthorized access to hardware registers.

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
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