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GHSA-62HW-VFC3-FH7Q

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-10-18 15:30 – Updated: 2026-10-18 15:30

Details

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

sysctl: Check range in proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies_minmax

Add the range check to do_proc_int_conv_ms_jiffies_minmax that commit d174174c6776 ("sysctl: replace SYSCTL_INT_CONV_CUSTOM macro with functions") incorrectly removed.

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CVE-2026-98434 (GCVE-0-2026-98434)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-18 14:38 – Updated: 2026-10-19 09:19

Title

sysctl: Check range in proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies_minmax

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sysctl: Check range in proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies_minmax Add the range check to do_proc_int_conv_ms_jiffies_minmax that commit d174174c6776 ("sysctl: replace SYSCTL_INT_CONV_CUSTOM macro with functions") incorrectly removed.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7063 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c23dba51dbf7e86c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82431877d837a6c25…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: d174174c6776a340f5c25aab1ac47a2dd950f380 , < 1c23dba51dbf7e86c7c2e617c964be1411329cb4 (git) Affected: d174174c6776a340f5c25aab1ac47a2dd950f380 , < 82431877d837a6c2593efd8e66ba28b35a220ca4 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 7.0 Unaffected: 0 , < 7.0 (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.8 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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