Security Advisory

CVE-2024-26618

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-02-29 15:52:20
Last updated 2026-05-23 15:36:02
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

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.