vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2024-42229: linux, linux-6.1 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/30/2024
Added
08/07/2024
Modified
01/28/2025

Description

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

crypto: aead,cipher - zeroize key buffer after use

I.G 9.7.B for FIPS 140-3 specifies that variables temporarily holding
cryptographic information should be zeroized once they are no longer
needed. Accomplish this by using kfree_sensitive for buffers that
previously held the private key.

Solution(s)

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