GHSA-5M73-3PCH-86M2

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-09-11 18:31 – Updated: 2025-11-04 00:31
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Details

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

memcg_write_event_control(): fix a user-triggerable oops

we are not guaranteed that anything past the terminating NUL is mapped (let alone initialized with anything sane).

Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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