CVE-2024-45008: 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: Input: MT - limit max slots syzbot is reporting too large allocation at input_mt_init_slots(), for num_slots is supplied from userspace using ioctl(UI_DEV_CREATE). Since nobody knows possible max slots, this patch chose 1024.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 4.19.321 (fixed in 4.19.321); from 4.20, before 5.4.283 (fixed in 5.4.283); from 5.5, before 5.10.225 (fixed in 5.10.225); from 5.11, before 5.15.166 (fixed in 5.15.166); from 5.16, before 6.1.107 (fixed in 6.1.107); from 6.2, before 6.6.48 (fixed in 6.6.48); …

Published 2024-09-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.