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HistorySep 05, 2024 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2024-44966

2024-09-0500:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
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linux kernel
vulnerability
binfmt_flat
data corruption
offsetting
risc-v
flat format
shared library
pointers

AI Score

7.3

Confidence

High

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
binfmt_flat: Fix corruption when not offsetting data start
Commit 04d82a6d0881 (“binfmt_flat: allow not offsetting data start”)
introduced a RISC-V specific variant of the FLAT format which does
not allocate any space for the (obsolete) array of shared library
pointers. However, it did not disable the code which initializes the
array, resulting in the corruption of sizeof(long) bytes before the DATA
segment, generally the end of the TEXT segment.
Introduce MAX_SHARED_LIBS_UPDATE which depends on the state of
CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET to guard the initialization of
the shared library pointer region so that it will only be initialized
if space is reserved for it.

AI Score

7.3

Confidence

High