CVE-2024-26618 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.5OSV6.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 96.35%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 11
Latest updateJun 26
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
arm64/sme: Always exit sme_alloc() early with existing storage
When sme_alloc() is called with existing storage and we are not flushing we
will always allocate new storage, both leaking the existing storage and
corrupting the state. Fix this by separating the checks for flushing and
for existing storage as we do for SVE.
Callers that reallocate (eg, due to changing the vector length) should
call sme_free() themselves.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages5 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux21614ba60883eb93b99a7ee4b41cb927f93b39ae — f6421555dbd7cb3d4d70b69f33f998aaeca1e3b5+5