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CVE-2024-41077

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2024-07-29 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: null_blk: fix validation of block size Block size should be between 512 and PAGE_SIZE and be a power of 2. The current check does not validate this, so update the check. Without this patch, null_blk would Oops due to a null pointer deref when loaded with bs=1536 [1]. [axboe: remove unnecessary braces and != 0 check]

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-476

References