Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-23851

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - copyparams in drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 6.7.1 can attempt to allocate more than INTMAX bytes, and crash, because of a missing...

copy_params in drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 6.7.1 can attempt to allocate more than INT_MAX bytes and crash because of a missing param_kernel->data_size check. This is related to ctl_ioctl.

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The vulnerability of the copy_params function in the Linux operating system’s kernel allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the copyparams function in the Linux operating system’s kernel involves unlimited distribution of resources. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...