CVE-2024-26618

Name	CVE-2024-26618
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64/sme: Always exit sme_alloc() early with existing storage When sme_alloc() is called with existing storage and we are not flushing we will always allocate new storage, both leaking the existing storage and corrupting the state. Fix this by separating the checks for flushing and for existing storage as we do for SVE. Callers that reallocate (eg, due to changing the vector length) should call sme_free() themselves.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	fixed
	buster (security)	4.19.304-1	fixed
	bullseye	5.10.209-2	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.205-2	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.76-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.85-1	vulnerable
	trixie	6.6.15-2	fixed
	sid	6.7.12-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version
linux	source	buster	(not affected)
linux	source	bullseye	(not affected)
linux	source	(unstable)	6.6.15-1

Notes

[bullseye] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[buster] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/dc7eb8755797ed41a0d1b5c0c39df3c8f401b3d9 (6.8-rc1)