Threats tagged 'ghsa-3cf4-3gwv-8jwp'

CVE-2024-42102 is a medium severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel related to the writeback subsystem's dirty throttling logic. The issue arises from a reverted patch that attempted to fix a possible divide-by-zero error in wb_dirty_limits(). The revert was necessary because the original fix introduced multiplication overflow on 32-bit architectures and was inefficient. The vulnerability does not impact confidentiality or integrity but can cause availability issues due to potential kernel instability.