CVE-2024-40917

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memblock: make memblocksetnode also warn about use of MAXNUMNODES On an old x86 system with SRAT just covering space above 4Gb: ACPI: SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 mem 0x100000000-0xfffffffff hotplug the commit referenced below leads to thi...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40917

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memblock: make memblocksetnode also warn about use of MAXNUMNODES On an old x86 system with SRAT just covering space above 4Gb: ACPI: SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 mem 0x100000000-0xfffffffff hotplug the commit referenced below leads to thi...

CVE-2024-40917

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memblock: make memblocksetnode also warn about use of MAXNUMNODES On an old x86 system with SRAT just covering space above 4Gb: ACPI: SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 mem 0x100000000-0xfffffffff hotplug the commit referenced below leads to thi...

CVE-2024-40917 memblock: make memblock_set_node() also warn about use of MAX_NUMNODES

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memblock: make memblocksetnode also warn about use of MAXNUMNODES On an old x86 system with SRAT just covering space above 4Gb: ACPI: SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 mem 0x100000000-0xfffffffff hotplug the commit referenced below leads to thi...

CVE-2024-40917

CVE-2024-40917 affects the Linux kernel memory management (memblock) related to NUMA/node handling. The issue stems from memblock_validate_numa_coverage() allowing a NUMA_NO_NODE condition and memblock_alloc_range_nid() warning about MAX_NUMNODES, leading to a NULL dereference in memmap_init() wh...

CVE-2024-40917 memblock: make memblock_set_node() also warn about use of MAX_NUMNODES

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memblock: make memblocksetnode also warn about use of MAXNUMNODES On an old x86 system with SRAT just covering space above 4Gb: ACPI: SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 mem 0x100000000-0xfffffffff hotplug the commit referenced below leads to thi...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2018-377)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.126 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-1091: In the flushtmregstothread function in arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c, a guest kernel crash can be triggered from unprivileged userspace during a...