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CVE-2024-43854

block: initialize integrity buffer to zero before writing it to media PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 7ba1ba12eeef0aa7113beb16410ef8b7c748e18b before 9f4af4cf08f9a0329ade3d938f55d2220c40d0a6; affected 7ba1ba12eeef0aa7113beb16410ef8b7c748e18b before 129f95948a96105c1fad8e612c9097763e88ac5f; affected 7ba1ba12eeef0aa7113beb16410ef8b7c748e18b before 3fd11fe4f20756b4c0847f755a64cd96f8c6a005; affected 7ba1ba12eeef0aa7113beb16410ef8b7c748e18b before cf6b45ea7a8df0f61bded1dc4a8561ac6ad143d2; affected 7ba1ba12eeef0aa7113beb16410ef8b7c748e18b before d418313bd8f55c079a7da12651951b489a638ac1; affected 7ba1ba12eeef0aa7113beb16410ef8b7c748e18b before 23a19655fb56f241e592041156dfb1c6d04da644; affected 7ba1ba12eeef0aa7113beb16410ef8b7c748e18b before ebc0e91ba76dc6544fff9f5b66408b1982806a00; affected 7ba1ba12eeef0aa7113beb16410ef8b7c748e18b before 899ee2c3829c5ac14bfc7d3c4a5846c0b709b78f
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.27; unaffected 0 before 2.6.27; unaffected 4.19.322 through 4.19.*; unaffected 5.4.284 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.226 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.165 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.103 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.44 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.10.3 through 6.10.*; unaffected 6.11 through *

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