CVE-2024-44966

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.13-6.10.5 Memory Corruption via FLAT Format Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: binfmt_flat: Fix corruption when not offsetting data start Commit 04d82a6d0881 ("binfmt_flat: allow not offsetting data start") introduced a RISC-V specific variant of the FLAT format which does not allocate any space for the (obsolete) array of shared library pointers. However, it did not disable the code which initializes the array, resulting in the corruption of sizeof(long) bytes before the DATA segment, generally the end of the TEXT segment. Introduce MAX_SHARED_LIBS_UPDATE which depends on the state of CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET to guard the initialization of the shared library pointer region so that it will only be initialized if space is reserved for it.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 11.4%
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

Status published
Products (18)
linux/Kernel 5.13.0 - 5.15.165linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.106linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.47linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.10.6linux
Linux/Linux < 5.13
Linux/Linux 04d82a6d0881ef1ab1e9f66f10805177ee2fb1e8 - 3a684499261d0f7ed5ee72793025c88c2276809c
Linux/Linux 04d82a6d0881ef1ab1e9f66f10805177ee2fb1e8 - 3eb3cd5992f7a0c37edc8d05b4c38c98758d8671
Linux/Linux 04d82a6d0881ef1ab1e9f66f10805177ee2fb1e8 - 49df34d2b7da9e57c839555a2f7877291ce45ad1
Linux/Linux 04d82a6d0881ef1ab1e9f66f10805177ee2fb1e8 - 9350ba06ee61db392c486716ac68ecc20e030f7c
Linux/Linux 04d82a6d0881ef1ab1e9f66f10805177ee2fb1e8 - af65d5383854cc3f172a7d0843b628758bf462c8
... and 8 more
Published Sep 04, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026