CVE-2024-35988

medium

Published 2024-05-20 · Modified 2026-05-12

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: Fix TASK_SIZE on 64-bit NOMMU On NOMMU, userspace memory can come from anywhere in physical RAM. The current definition of TASK_SIZE is wrong if any RAM exists above 4G, causing spurious failures in the userspace access routines.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`6.1.90-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`5.10.216-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`6.8.9-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.8.9-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`6.8.9-1`
debian	10.0	affected
linux-kernel		affected	`5.10.216`
linux-kernel	6.9	affected

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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