CVE-2024-44966 binfmt_flat: Fix corruption when not offsetting data start

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: binfmtflat: Fix corruption when not offsetting data start Commit 04d82a6d0881 "binfmtflat: allow not offsetting data start" introduced a RISC-V specific variant of the FLAT format which does not allocate any space for the obsolet...

CVE-2024-44966

The CVE-2024-44966 entry concerns a Linux kernel issue in the binfmt_flat component. A RISC-V specific FLAT format variant allocated no space for the shared library pointer region, but code initializing that region was not disabled, causing corruption of sizeof(long) bytes before the DATA segment...

CVE-2024-44966: Undefined Security Weakness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: binfmtflat: Fix corruption when not offsetting data start Commit 04d82a6d0881 "binfmtflat: allow not offsetting data start" introduced a RISC-V specific variant of the FLAT format which does not allocate any space for the obsolet...

Linux Kernel Security Vulnerabilities

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in Linux kernel, which originates from a data corruption vulnerability caused by an unshifted data start position in the binfmtflat component...