CVE-2024-26843

high

Published 2024-11-12 · Modified 2024-08-08

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efi: runtime: Fix potential overflow of soft-reserved region size md_size will have been narrowed if we have >= 4GB worth of pages in a soft-reserved region.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	`kernel-doc-4.18.0-553.16.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`6.7.7-1`
sid	Fixed	`6.7.7-1`
forky	Fixed	`6.7.7-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`5.10.216-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`6.1.82-1`

Red Hat Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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