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Debian: CVE-2024-42158: linux -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 30, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

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

s390/pkey: Use kfree_sensitive() to fix Coccinelle warnings

Replace memzero_explicit() and kfree() with kfree_sensitive() to fix
warnings reported by Coccinelle:

WARNING opportunity for kfree_sensitive/kvfree_sensitive (line 1506)
WARNING opportunity for kfree_sensitive/kvfree_sensitive (line 1643)
WARNING opportunity for kfree_sensitive/kvfree_sensitive (line 1770)

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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