CVE-2024-53681: 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: nvmet: Don't overflow subsysnqn nvmet_root_discovery_nqn_store treats the subsysnqn string like a fixed size buffer, even though it is dynamically allocated to the size of the string. Create a new string with kstrndup instead of using the old buffer.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.9.1, before 6.12.9 (fixed in 6.12.9); version 6.9 only; version 6.13 only

Published 2025-01-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.