Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
comedi: me4000: Fix potential overrun of firmware buffer
me4000_xilinx_download() loads the firmware that was requested by
request_firmware(). It is possible for it to overrun the source
buffer because it blindly trusts the file format. It reads a data
stream length from the first 4 bytes into variable file_length and
reads the data stream contents of length file_length from offset 16
onwards.
Add a test to ensure that the supplied firmware is long enough to
contain the header and the data stream. On failure, log an error and
return -EINVAL.
Note: The firmware loading was totally broken before commit ac584af59945 (“staging: comedi: me4000: fix firmware downloading”), but that is the most sensible target for this fix.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Amazon Linux 2 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux @ 5.4.0 (+12 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| Debian 11 | Released |
37 kernels
|
| Debian 11 cloud | Released |
17 kernels
|
| Debian 12 | In Rollout |
35 kernels
|
| Debian 13 | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 | Planned | — |