CVE-2024-36957

high
Published 2024-07-17 · Modified 2024-11-03
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

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

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-4583.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2294225

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2293653

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2293456

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2293402

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2293380

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2293230

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2284581

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2284541

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2283401

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2281925

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2281131

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2280434

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2277238

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2275735

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2273466

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2273082

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267509

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-36957

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:4583

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-36957.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: redhat — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4583

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
redhat rhel9fixed
suse slesaffected
rockylinux rocky9fixed
debian debianbookwormfixed6.1.94-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.218-1
debian debianforkyfixed6.8.11-1
debian debiansidfixed6.8.11-1
debian debiantrixiefixed6.8.11-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.