{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26901 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-26901 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 Apr 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-26901 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-26901 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 Apr 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26901 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26901/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26901/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-26901","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26901/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-26901","record":{"aliases":["AZL-40082","BELL-CVE-2024-26901","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26901","GHSA-jwqh-57hr-2ggg","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26901"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A local attacker can read uninitialized kernel memory via the name_to_handle_at syscall, potentially exposing sensitive data.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"information_disclosure"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.3,"severity":"medium","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-908","name":"Use of Uninitialized Resource"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndo_sys_name_to_handle(): use kzalloc() to fix kernel-infoleak\n\nsyzbot identified a kernel information leak vulnerability in\ndo_sys_name_to_handle() and issued the following report [1].\n\n[1]\n\"BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:114 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_user+0xbc/0x100 lib/usercopy.c:40\n instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:114 [inline]\n _copy_to_user+0xbc/0x100 lib/usercopy.c:40\n copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:191 [inline]\n do_sys_name_to_handle fs/fhandle.c:73 [inline]\n __do_sys_name_to_handle_at fs/fhandle.c:112 [inline]\n __se_sys_name_to_handle_at+0x949/0xb10 fs/fhandle.c:94\n __x64_sys_name_to_handle_at+0xe4/0x140 fs/fhandle.c:94\n ...\n\nUninit was created at:\n slab_post_alloc_hook+0x129/0xa70 mm/slab.h:768\n slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3478 [inline]\n __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x5c9/0x970 mm/slub.c:3517\n __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]\n __kmalloc+0x121/0x3c0 mm/slab_common.c:1020\n kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]\n do_sys_name_to_handle fs/fhandle.c:39 [inline]\n __do_sys_name_to_handle_at fs/fhandle.c:112 [inline]\n __se_sys_name_to_handle_at+0x441/0xb10 fs/fhandle.c:94\n __x64_sys_name_to_handle_at+0xe4/0x140 fs/fhandle.c:94\n ...\n\nBytes 18-19 of 20 are uninitialized\nMemory access of size 20 starts at ffff888128a46380\nData copied to user address 0000000020000240\"\n\nPer Chuck Lever's suggestion, use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() to\nsolve the problem.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"do_sys_name_to_handle(): use kzalloc() to fix kernel-infoleak","id":"CVE-2024-26901","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"information_disclosure","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":9,"next":{"headline":"perf: RISCV: Fix panic on pmu overflow handler","id":"CVE-2024-26902"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"md: fix kmemleak of rdev-\u003eserial","id":"CVE-2024-26900"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-04-17","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API 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