CVE-2024-56763 (GCVE-0-2024-56763)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-06 16:20 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:58
VLAI
Title
tracing: Prevent bad count for tracing_cpumask_write
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Prevent bad count for tracing_cpumask_write If a large count is provided, it will trigger a warning in bitmap_parse_user. Also check zero for it.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7067 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 9e01c1b74c9531e301c900edaa92a99fcb7738f2 , < 2558d753df0628d4187d8e1fd989339460f4f364 (git)
Affected: 9e01c1b74c9531e301c900edaa92a99fcb7738f2 , < f60172b447317cb6c5e74b5601a151866269baf6 (git)
Affected: 9e01c1b74c9531e301c900edaa92a99fcb7738f2 , < 3d15f4c2449558ffe83b4dba30614ef1cd6937c3 (git)
Affected: 9e01c1b74c9531e301c900edaa92a99fcb7738f2 , < 03041e474a6a8f1bfd4b96b164bb3165c48fa1a3 (git)
Affected: 9e01c1b74c9531e301c900edaa92a99fcb7738f2 , < 1cca920af19df5dd91254e5ff35e68e911683706 (git)
Affected: 9e01c1b74c9531e301c900edaa92a99fcb7738f2 , < 98feccbf32cfdde8c722bc4587aaa60ee5ac33f0 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.29
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.29 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.233 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.176 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.123 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.69 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.8 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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