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Date:      Mon, 18 Nov 2024 12:48:48 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Unable to update to 14.1-p6
Message-ID:  <86serosqxr.fsf@ltc.des.dev>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1stBxS5OVeLpZyzBKn%2B=b_jqFqtRsYM1Zx16OC3DWBu8A@mail.gmail.com> (Kevin Oberman's message of "Sat, 16 Nov 2024 10:45:22 -0800")
References:  <CAN6yY1stBxS5OVeLpZyzBKn%2B=b_jqFqtRsYM1Zx16OC3DWBu8A@mail.gmail.com>

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Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> writes:
> I am running 14.1-p5 and get a daily message that I have a kernel security vulnerability:
> Checking for security vulnerabilities in base (userland & kernel):
> Fetching vuln.xml.xz: .......... done
> FreeBSD-kernel-14.1_5 is vulnerable:
>   FreeBSD -- Unbounded allocation in ctl(4) CAM Target Layer
>   CVE: CVE-2024-39281
>   WWW: https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/8caa5d60-a174-11ef-9a62-002590c1f29c.html

It's a false positive.  The advisory only affected the ctl driver, which
is not included in the GENERIC kernel, therefore the kernel itself was
not updated and does not reflect the patch level.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@FreeBSD.org


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