CVE-2024-56716 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netdevsim: prevent bad user input in nsim_dev_health_break_write()

If either a zero count or a large one is provided kernel can crash.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/470c5ecbac2f19b1cdee2a6ce8d5650c3295c94b https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e9ef6bdf71bf25f4735e0230ce1919de8985835 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d10321be26ff9e9e912697e9e8448099654ff561 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee76746387f6233bdfa93d7406990f923641568f