vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2024-42086: linux, linux-6.1 -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 29, 2024
Added
Aug 7, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

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

iio: chemical: bme680: Fix overflows in compensate() functions

There are cases in the compensate functions of the driver that
there could be overflows of variables due to bit shifting ops.
These implications were initially discussed here [1] and they
were mentioned in log message of Commit 1b3bd8592780 ("iio:
chemical: Add support for Bosch BME680 sensor").

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/20180728114028.3c1bbe81@archlinux/

Solutions

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