In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/writeback: fix possible divide-by-zero in wb_dirty_limits(), again (struct dirty_throttle_control *)->thresh is an unsigned long, but is passed as the u32 divisor argument to div_u64(). On architectures where unsigned long is 64 bytes, the argument will be implicitly truncated. Use div64_u64() instead of div_u64() so that the value used in the "is this a safe division" check is the same as the divisor. Also, remove redundant cast of the numerator to u64, as that should happen implicitly. This would be difficult to exploit in memcg domain, given the ratio-based arithmetic domain_drity_limits() uses, but is much easier in global writeback domain with a BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT-backing device, using e.g. vm.dirty_bytes=(1<<32)*PAGE_SIZE so that dtc->thresh == (1<<32)
History

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Redhat enterprise Linux
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat enterprise Linux

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 14:00:00 +0000

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CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2024-04-03T14:55:20.286Z

Updated: 2024-09-11T17:33:22.917Z

Reserved: 2024-02-19T14:20:24.161Z

Link: CVE-2024-26720

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T00:14:12.922Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-04-03T15:15:53.993

Modified: 2024-07-18T12:15:02.847

Link: CVE-2024-26720

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-04-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-26720 - Bugzilla