CVE-2024-42131 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound in Linux
Severity
4.4MEDIUMNVD
OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 98.38%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 30
Latest updateDec 12
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: avoid overflows in dirty throttling logic
The dirty throttling logic is interspersed with assumptions that dirty
limits in PAGE_SIZE units fit into 32-bit (so that various multiplications
fit into 64-bits). If limits end up being larger, we will hit overflows,
possible divisions by 0 etc. Fix these problems by never allowing so
large dirty limits as they have dubious practical value anyway. For
dirty_bytes / dirty_backgrou…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 0.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux2da02997e08d3efe8174c7a47696e6f7cbe69ba9 — 2b2d2b8766db028bd827af34075f221ae9e9efff+8