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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2024-26973) ELSA-2024-3618: kernel update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2024-26973) ELSA-2024-3618: kernel update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/01/2024
Created
06/07/2024
Added
06/06/2024
Modified
06/06/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fat: fix uninitialized field in nostale filehandles

When fat_encode_fh_nostale() encodes file handle without a parent it

stores only first 10 bytes of the file handle. However the length of the

file handle must be a multiple of 4 so the file handle is actually 12

bytes long and the last two bytes remain uninitialized. This is not

great at we potentially leak uninitialized information with the handle

to userspace. Properly initialize the full handle length.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel

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