Summary
Linux kernel contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the legacy_parse_param function in the Filesystem Context functionality. This allows an attacker to open a filesystem that does not support the Filesystem Context API and ultimately escalate privileges.
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Kernel
- Added to KEV
- Aug 21, 2024
- Remediation due
- Sep 11, 2024 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-190
- EPSS
- 25.2% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References