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Alma Linux: CVE-2024-42102: Moderate: kernel security update (ALSA-2024-6567)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2024-42102: Moderate: kernel security update (ALSA-2024-6567)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/30/2024
Created
11/05/2024
Added
11/04/2024
Modified
11/04/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "mm/writeback: fix possible divide-by-zero in wb_dirty_limits(), again" Patch series "mm: Avoid possible overflows in dirty throttling". Dirty throttling logic assumes dirty limits in page units fit into 32-bits. This patch series makes sure this is true (see patch 2/2 for more details). This patch (of 2): This reverts commit 9319b647902cbd5cc884ac08a8a6d54ce111fc78. The commit is broken in several ways. Firstly, the removed (u64) cast from the multiplication will introduce a multiplication overflow on 32-bit archs if wb_thresh * bg_thresh >= 1<<32 (which is actually common - the default settings with 4GB of RAM will trigger this). Secondly, the div64_u64() is unnecessarily expensive on 32-bit archs. We have div64_ul() in case we want to be safe & cheap. Thirdly, if dirty thresholds are larger than 1<<32 pages, then dirty balancing is going to blow up in many other spectacular ways anyway so trying to fix one possible overflow is just moot.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-bpftool
  • alma-upgrade-kernel
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-64k
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-64k-core
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-64k-debug
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-64k-debug-core
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-64k-debug-devel
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-64k-debug-modules
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-64k-debug-modules-core
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-64k-debug-modules-extra
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-64k-devel
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-64k-devel-matched
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-64k-modules
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-64k-modules-core
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-64k-modules-extra
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-abi-stablelists
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-core
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-cross-headers
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-debug
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-debug-core
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-debug-devel
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-debug-devel-matched
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-debug-modules
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-debug-modules-core
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-debug-modules-extra
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-debug-uki-virt
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-devel-matched
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-doc
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-headers
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-modules
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-modules-core
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-modules-extra
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-rt
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-rt-core
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-core
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-devel
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-modules
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-modules-core
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-rt-devel
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-rt-modules
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-rt-modules-core
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-rt-modules-extra
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-tools
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-devel
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-uki-virt
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-zfcpdump
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-zfcpdump-core
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-zfcpdump-devel
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-zfcpdump-modules
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-zfcpdump-modules-core
  • alma-upgrade-kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra
  • alma-upgrade-libperf
  • alma-upgrade-perf
  • alma-upgrade-python3-perf
  • alma-upgrade-rtla
  • alma-upgrade-rv

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