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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-36016): Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C) | 05/29/2024 | 07/31/2024 | 02/18/2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tty: n_gsm: fix possible out-of-bounds in gsm0_receive()
Assuming the following:
- side A configures the n_gsm in basic option mode
- side B sends the header of a basic option mode frame with data length 1
- side A switches to advanced option mode
- side B sends 2 data bytes which exceeds gsm->len
Reason: gsm->len is not used in advanced option mode.
- side A switches to basic option mode
- side B keeps sending until gsm0_receive() writes past gsm->buf
Reason: Neither gsm->state nor gsm->len have been reset after
reconfiguration.
Fix this by changing gsm->count to gsm->len comparison from equal to less
than. Also add upper limit checks against the constant MAX_MRU in
gsm0_receive() and gsm1_receive() to harden against memory corruption of
gsm->len and gsm->mru.
All other checks remain as we still need to limit the data according to the
user configuration and actual payload size.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2024-36016
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2024-36016
- UBUNTU-USN-6921-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6921-2
- UBUNTU-USN-6923-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6923-2
- UBUNTU-USN-6924-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6924-2
- UBUNTU-USN-6926-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6926-2
- UBUNTU-USN-6926-3
- UBUNTU-USN-6927-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6938-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6952-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6952-2
- UBUNTU-USN-6953-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6956-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6957-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6979-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7019-1

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