CVE-2024-43854
Published: Aug 17, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: initialize integrity buffer to zero before writing it to media Metadata added by bio_integrity_prep is using plain kmalloc, which leads to random kernel memory being written media. For PI metadata this is limited to the app tag that isn't used by kernel generated metadata, but for non-PI metadata the entire buffer leaks kernel memory. Fix this by adding the __GFP_ZERO flag to allocations for writes.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 7ba1ba12eeef0aa7113beb16410ef8b7c748e18b - < 9f4af4cf08f9a0329ade3d938f55d2220c40d0a6affected 7ba1ba12eeef0aa7113beb16410ef8b7c748e18b - < 129f95948a96105c1fad8e612c9097763e88ac5faffected 7ba1ba12eeef0aa7113beb16410ef8b7c748e18b - < 3fd11fe4f20756b4c0847f755a64cd96f8c6a005affected 7ba1ba12eeef0aa7113beb16410ef8b7c748e18b - < cf6b45ea7a8df0f61bded1dc4a8561ac6ad143d2affected 7ba1ba12eeef0aa7113beb16410ef8b7c748e18b - < d418313bd8f55c079a7da12651951b489a638ac1+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 2.6.27unaffected 0 - < 2.6.27unaffected 4.19.322 - <= 4.19.*unaffected 5.4.284 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.226 - <= 5.10.*+5 more versions |
References
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