CVE-2024-43854: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: initialize integrity buffer to zero before writing it to media Metadata added by bio_integrity_prep is using plain kmalloc, which leads to random kernel memory being written media. For PI metadata this is limited to the app tag that isn't used by kernel generated metadata, but for non-PI metadata the entire buffer leaks kernel memory. Fix this by adding the __GFP_ZERO flag to allocations for writes.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.27, before 5.15.165 (fixed in 5.15.165); from 5.16, before 6.1.103 (fixed in 6.1.103); from 6.2, before 6.6.44 (fixed in 6.6.44); from 6.7, before 6.10.3 (fixed in 6.10.3)

Published 2024-08-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.