CVE-2024-49994

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: fix integer overflow in BLKSECDISCARD I independently rediscovered commit 22d24a544b0d49bbcbd61c8c0eaf77d3c9297155 block: fix overflow in blk_ioctl_discard() but for secure erase. Same problem: uint64_t r[2] = {512, 18446744073709551104ULL}; ioctl(fd, BLKSECDISCARD, r); will enter near infinite loop inside blkdev_issue_secure_erase(): a.out: attempt to access beyond end of device loop0: rw=5, sector=3399043073, nr_sectors = 1024 limit=2048 bio_check_eod: 3286214 callbacks suppressed

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a99bacb35c1416355eef957560e8fcac3a665549

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8476f8428e8b48fd7a0e4258fa2a96a8f4468239

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c9915fa9410cbb9bd75ee283c03120046c56d3d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/697ba0b6ec4ae04afb67d3911799b5e2043b4455

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0842ddd83939eb4db940b9af7d39e79722bc41aa

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-10-21

Updated: 2025-02-02

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium