Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: firewire-motu: fix buffer overflow in hwdep read for DSP events
The DSP event handling code in hwdep_read() could write more bytes to the user buffer than requested, when a user provides a buffer smaller than the event header size (8 bytes).
Fix by using min_t() to clamp the copy size, This ensures we never copy more than the user requested.
Details
- Affected product:
- CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 4.18.0 (+2 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux 8 | Released |
88 kernels
|
| CloudLinux OS 7h | Released |
86 kernels
|
| CloudLinux OS 8 | Released |
85 kernels
|
| Debian 12 | Planned | — |
| Debian 13 | Will Not Fix | — |
| Oracle Linux 8 | Released |
88 kernels
|
| RHEL 8 | Released |
83 kernels
|
| Rocky Linux 8 | Released |
76 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 24.04 | Released |
41 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 24.04 AWS | Planned | — |