vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2024-40966: linux, linux-6.1 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
07/12/2024
Added
07/18/2024
Modified
02/20/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tty: add the option to have a tty reject a new ldisc

... and use it to limit the virtual terminals to just N_TTY. They are
kind of special, and in particular, the "con_write()" routine violates
the "writes cannot sleep" rule that some ldiscs rely on.

This avoids the

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/printk/printk.c:2659

when N_GSM has been attached to a virtual console, and gsmld_write()
calls con_write() while holding a spinlock, and con_write() then tries
to get the console lock.

Solution(s)

debian-upgrade-linuxdebian-upgrade-linux-6-1
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