CVE-2024-53097 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Linux
CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer35 documents8 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.8
EPSS
0.0%
top 98.57%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 25
Latest updateAug 14
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: krealloc: Fix MTE false alarm in __do_krealloc
This patch addresses an issue introduced by commit 1a83a716ec233 ("mm:
krealloc: consider spare memory for __GFP_ZERO") which causes MTE
(Memory Tagging Extension) to falsely report a slab-out-of-bounds error.
The problem occurs when zeroing out spare memory in __do_krealloc. The
original code only considered software-based KASAN and did not account
for MTE. It does not reset…
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