CVE-2024-42131
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2024-07-30 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nmm: avoid overflows in dirty throttling logic\nThe dirty throttling logic is interspersed with assumptions that dirty\nlimits in PAGE_SIZE units fit into 32-bit (so that various multiplications\nfit into 64-bits). If limits end up being larger, we will hit overflows,\npossible divisions by 0 etc. Fix these problems by never allowing so\nlarge dirty limits as they have dubious practical value anyway. For\ndirty_bytes / dirty_background_bytes interfaces we can just refuse to set\nso large limits. For dirty_ratio / dirty_background_ratio it isn't so\nsimple as the dirty limit is computed from the amount of available memory\nwhich can change due to memory hotplug etc. So when converting dirty\nlimits from ratios to numbers of pages, we just don't allow the result to\nexceed UINT_MAX.\nThis is root-only triggerable problem which occurs when the operator\nsets dirty limits to >16 TB.
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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 4.4 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Version: | 3.1 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Privileges Required: | High |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality: | None |
| Integrity: | None |
| Availability: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2024-12780 | 2024-10-11 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2024-12782 | 2024-10-14 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2024-12868 | 2024-12-06 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel) | ELSA-2024-7000 | 2024-09-24 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2024-12618 | 2024-09-12 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2024-12780 | 2024-10-11 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2024-12782 | 2024-10-14 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel) | ELSA-2024-6567 | 2024-09-11 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2024-12618 | 2024-09-12 |
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