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CVE-2024-46748 (GCVE-0-2024-46748)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-18 07:12 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:35
VLAI
Title
cachefiles: Set the max subreq size for cache writes to MAX_RW_COUNT
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: Set the max subreq size for cache writes to MAX_RW_COUNT Set the maximum size of a subrequest that writes to cachefiles to be MAX_RW_COUNT so that we don't overrun the maximum write we can make to the backing filesystem.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-29 14:48 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 64e64e6c18c6bc7767ea6f2762c87c9ac981f2d1 , < cec226f9b1fd6cf55bc157873aec61b523083e96 (git)
Affected: 64e64e6c18c6bc7767ea6f2762c87c9ac981f2d1 , < 51d37982bbac3ea0ca21b2797a9cb0044272b3aa (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10.10 , ≤ 6.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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