[SRU][Mantic][Jammy][Focal][PATCH 0/1] CVE-2023-6915

Bethany Jamison bethany.jamison at canonical.com
Wed Jan 31 18:32:40 UTC 2024


[Impact]

A Null pointer dereference problem was found in ida_free in lib/idr.c in
the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow an attacker using this library to
cause a denial of service problem due to a missing check at a function
return.

[Fix]

Clean cherry-pick.

[Test Case]

Compile and boot test.

[Regression Potential]

Issues could occur when running ida_free.

Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) (1):
  ida: Fix crash in ida_free when the bitmap is empty

 lib/idr.c      |  2 +-
 lib/test_ida.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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2.34.1




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