CVE-2024-36957
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-af: avoid off-by-one read from userspace We try to access count + 1 byte from userspace with memdup_user(buffer, count + 1). However, the userspace only provides buffer of count bytes and only these count bytes are verified to be okay to access. To ensure the copied buffer is NUL terminated, we use memdup_user_nul instead.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: alma — https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-4583.html
Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2294225
Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2293653
Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2293456
Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2293402
Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2293380
Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2293230
Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2284581
Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2284541
Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2283401
Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2281925
Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2281131
Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2280434
Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2277238
Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2275735
Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2273466
Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2273082
Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267509
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-36957
Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:4583
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-36957.html
Vendor advisory: redhat — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4583
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| rhel | 9 | fixed | |
| sles | affected | | |
| rocky | 9 | fixed | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 6.1.94-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 5.10.218-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 6.8.11-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 6.8.11-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 6.8.11-1 |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4583
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-36957.html
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:4583
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-36957
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267509
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2273082
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2273466
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2275735
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2277238
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2280434
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2281131
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2281925
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2283401
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2284541
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2284581
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2293230
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2293380
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2293402
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2293456
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2293653
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2294225
- https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-4583.html
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.