vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2024-49994: linux, linux-6.1 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 21, 2024
Added
Feb 10, 2025
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

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

block: fix integer overflow in BLKSECDISCARD

I independently rediscovered

commit 22d24a544b0d49bbcbd61c8c0eaf77d3c9297155
block: fix overflow in blk_ioctl_discard()

but for secure erase.

Same problem:

uint64_t r[2] = {512, 18446744073709551104ULL};
ioctl(fd, BLKSECDISCARD, r);

will enter near infinite loop inside blkdev_issue_secure_erase():

a.out: attempt to access beyond end of device
loop0: rw=5, sector=3399043073, nr_sectors = 1024 limit=2048
bio_check_eod: 3286214 callbacks suppressed

Solutions

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