CVE-2024-26718
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-04-03 14:55
Modified
2024-11-05 09:14
Severity ?
Summary
dm-crypt, dm-verity: disable tasklets
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a9bab391e336489169b95cb0d4553d921302189
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c45a20cbe68bc4d681734f5c03891124a274257
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30884a44e0cedc3dfda8c22432f3ba4078ec2d94
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5735a2671ffb70ea29ca83969fe01316ee2ed6fc
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b825e0f9d68c178072bffd32dd34c39e3d2d597a
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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