CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-46745

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.28%

19th percentile - higher than 19% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability was resolved in the uinput interface where requests with an unreasonable number of slots can cause memory allocation failure and burden the system. A limit of 100 slots was introduced.

Risk Assessment

May lead to denial of service by exhausting memory or burdening the system via a local attacker sending requests with a large number of slots.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that limits the number of slots to 100.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Input: uinput - reject requests with unreasonable number of slots When exercising uinput interface syzkaller may try setting up device with a really large number of slots, which causes memory allocation failure in input_mt_init_slots(). While this allocation failure is handled properly and request is rejected, it results in syzkaller reports. Additionally, such request may put undue burden on the system which will try to free a lot of memory for a bogus request. Fix it by limiting allowed number of slots to 100. This can easily be extended if we see devices that can track more than 100 contacts.

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