CVE-2024-43854

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Memory Leak via Uninitialized Integrity Buffer

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: initialize integrity buffer to zero before writing it to media Metadata added by bio_integrity_prep is using plain kmalloc, which leads to random kernel memory being written media. For PI metadata this is limited to the app tag that isn't used by kernel generated metadata, but for non-PI metadata the entire buffer leaks kernel memory. Fix this by adding the __GFP_ZERO flag to allocations for writes.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 13.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (26)
linux/Kernel 2.6.27 - 4.19.322linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.284linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.165linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.103linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.226linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.44linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.10.3linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.27
Linux/Linux 2.6.27
Linux/Linux 4.19.322 - 4.19.*
... and 16 more
Published Aug 17, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026