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medium 4.1

CVE-2024-42157 json

s390/pkey: Wipe sensitive data on failure

published 2024-07-30 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-39988

cvss
4.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 12%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

s390/pkey: Wipe sensitive data on failure

Wipe sensitive data from stack also if the copy_to_user() fails.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 4.19.318, 5.4.280, 5.10.222, 5.15.163, 6.1.98, 6.6.39, 6.9.9, 6.10
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.98-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.9.9-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42157

  • linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-195.215
  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-121.131
  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-48.48
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1132.142
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1069.75
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1018.20
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1136.145
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1068.76

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42157

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-10.1
  • kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-10.1
  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_2 Linux Micro 6.0 1-1.1
  • kernel-source Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-19.1
  • kernel-default Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-19.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-19.1
  • kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-17.1.1.51
  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_2 Linux Micro 6.0 1-1.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:20047-1SUSE-SU-2025:20044-1SUSE-SU-2024:3483-1SUSE-SU-2024:3383-1SUSE-SU-2024:3252-1SUSE-SU-2024:3251-1

  • kernel Azure Linux 3.0 6.6.43.1-7
  • kernel CBL-Mariner 2.0 5.15.164.1-1

azure linux advisories AZL-47352AZL-47382

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-42157 updated cvss 4.1

kernel: s390/pkey: Wipe sensitive data on failure

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Technology feeds

References

Sources

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