Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,6.7-rc5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-6241874
  • published12 Feb 2024
  • disclosed12 Feb 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Feb 2024

CVE-2024-25744  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.7-rc5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime due to improper syscall handling in specific kernel components. An attacker with control over the Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) can manipulate the execution flow at any point, leading to potential system compromise or information disclosure.

Note:

This vulnerability arises from the way int80 syscalls are managed, particularly in relation to the arch/x86/coco/tdx/tdx.c and arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt_amd.c files.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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