CVE-2024-40966 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tty: add the option to have a tty reject a new ldisc

… and use it to limit the virtual terminals to just N_TTY. They are kind of special and in particular the ## Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c6332f3bb1578b5b10ac2561247b1d6272ae937 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/287b569a5b914903ba7c438a3c0dbc3410ebb409 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5920ac19964f9e20181f63b410d9200ddbf8dc86 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bd23e0c2bb6c65d4f5754d1456bc9a4427fc59b