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Oracle Linux: CVE-2024-35924: ELSA-2024-5101: kernel security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2024-35924: ELSA-2024-5101: kernel security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
05/19/2024
Created
08/20/2024
Added
10/16/2024
Modified
10/17/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: ucsi: Limit read size on v1.2 Between UCSI 1.2 and UCSI 2.0, the size of the MESSAGE_IN region was increased from 16 to 256. In order to avoid overflowing reads for older systems, add a mechanism to use the read UCSI version to truncate read sizes on UCSI v1.2.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel

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