Bug 2278206 (CVE-2024-26946)

Summary:	CVE-2024-26946 kernel: kprobes/x86: Use copy_from_kernel_nofault() to read from unsafe address
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Zack Miele <zmiele>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acaringi, allarkin, aquini, bhu, chwhite, cye, cyin, dbohanno, debarbos, dfreiber, drow, dvlasenk, esandeen, ezulian, hkrzesin, jarod, jburrell, jdenham, jfaracco, jlelli, joe.lawrence, jshortt, jstancek, jwyatt, kcarcia, ldoskova, lgoncalv, lzampier, mleitner, mmilgram, mstowell, nmurray, ptalbert, rparrazo, rrobaina, rvrbovsk, rysulliv, scweaver, sidakwo, sukulkar, tglozar, tyberry, vkumar, vsroka, wcosta, williams, wmealing, ycote, ykopkova, zhijwang
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	kernel 6.1.84, kernel 6.6.24, kernel 6.7.12, kernel 6.8.3, kernel 6.9-rc1	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	An unsafe read function was found in arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c in the Linux kernel .	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2278207
Bug Blocks:	2278552

Description Zack Miele 2024-05-01 16:54:52 UTC

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

kprobes/x86: Use copy_from_kernel_nofault() to read from unsafe address

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-26946 to this issue.

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024050126-CVE-2024-26946-ad5d@gregkh/T

Comment 1 Zack Miele 2024-05-01 16:55:24 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2278207]

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2024-09-04 00:11:25 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2024:6268 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6268

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2024-09-04 00:25:21 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2024:6267 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6267

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2024-09-11 00:57:14 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:6567 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6567