Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-46740

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  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: binder: fix UAF caused by offsets
    overwrite Binder objects are processed and copied individually into the target buffer during transactions.
    Any raw data in-between these objects is copied as well. However, this raw data copy lacks an out-of-
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    decrements of arbitrary nodes and lead to their premature release. Other users of such nodes are left with
    a dangling pointer triggering a use-after-free. This issue is made evident by the following KASAN report
    (trimmed): ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-
    free in _raw_spin_lock+0xe4/0x19c Write of size 4 at addr ffff47fc91598f04 by task binder-util/743 CPU: 9
    UID: 0 PID: 743 Comm: binder-util Not tainted 6.11.0-rc4 #1 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) Call
    trace: _raw_spin_lock+0xe4/0x19c binder_free_buf+0x128/0x434 binder_thread_write+0x8a4/0x3260
    binder_ioctl+0x18f0/0x258c [...] Allocated by task 743: __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x110/0x270
    binder_new_node+0x50/0x700 binder_transaction+0x413c/0x6da8 binder_thread_write+0x978/0x3260
    binder_ioctl+0x18f0/0x258c [...] Freed by task 745: kfree+0xbc/0x208 binder_thread_read+0x1c5c/0x37d4
    binder_ioctl+0x16d8/0x258c [...] ================================================================== To
    avoid this issue, let's check that the raw data copy is within the boundaries of the data section.
    (CVE-2024-46740)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.");
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if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

include('linux_unpatched.inc');

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    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
    "constraints": [
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        "pkgs": [
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var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
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