CVE-2024-36964: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/9p: only translate RWX permissions for plain 9P2000 Garbage in plain 9P2000's perm bits is allowed through, which causes it to be able to set (among others) the suid bit. This was presumably not the intent since the unix extended bits are handled explicitly and conditionally on .u.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 4.19.314 (fixed in 4.19.314); from 4.20, before 5.4.276 (fixed in 5.4.276); from 5.5, before 5.10.217 (fixed in 5.10.217); from 5.11, before 5.15.159 (fixed in 5.15.159); from 5.16, before 6.1.91 (fixed in 6.1.91); from 6.2, before 6.6.31 (fixed in 6.6.31); …

Published 2024-06-03. Last modified 2026-08-04.