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Bottlerocket: kernel-5.10, kernel-5.15: security update to 2.8.4
high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 428034
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Squashfs: sanity check symbolic link
size Syzkiller reports a "KMSAN: uninit-value in pick_link" bug. This is caused by an uninitialised page,
which is ultimately caused by a corrupted symbolic link size read from disk. The reason why the corrupted
symlink size causes an uninitialised page is due to the following sequence of events: 1.
squashfs_read_inode() is called to read the symbolic link from disk. This assigns the corrupted value
3875536935 to inode->i_size. 2. Later squashfs_symlink_read_folio() is called, which assigns this
corrupted value to the length variable, which being a signed int, overflows producing a negative number.
3. The following loop that fills in the page contents checks that the copied bytes is less than length,
which being negative means the loop is skipped, producing an uninitialised page. This patch adds a sanity
check which checks that the symbolic link size is not larger than expected. -- V2: fix spelling mistake.
(CVE-2024-46744)
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 428034
Version: Revision 1.3
Type: Local
Published: 6/30/2025
Updated: 7/2/2026
Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.9
Percentile: 57.12
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-46744
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 6.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2024
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2024-46744