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The device mapper tag on WindowsForum.com covers the Linux kernel subsystem that provides logical block devices for LVM, encryption, thin provisioning, and multipath. Discussions focus on security vulnerabilities and stability fixes, including CVE-2024-23851, a denial-of-service bug in the DM ioctl path; CVE-2025-38063, an IO throttle issue with flush requests affecting Azure Linux; and CVE-2024-50277, a crash when blk_alloc_disk fails. These threads detail upstream patches, CVSS scores, and the impact on enterprise Linux distributions. The tag is relevant for IT professionals and system administrators managing Linux storage stacks.
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    CVE-2024-23851 DM IOCTL Patch: Linux Kernel Robustness Fix

    The Linux kernel received a targeted robustness fix for a device‑mapper ioctl bug tracked as CVE‑2024‑23851: a missing check in copy_params (drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c) could let an ioctl request lead the kernel to try to allocate more than INT_MAX bytes and crash, producing a local denial‑of‑service...
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    CVE-2025-38063: Linux Device Mapper IO Throttle Fix in Azure Linux

    A targeted fix landed in the Linux device-mapper subsystem to stop an unexpected IO throttle that could occur when a flush request carried the REQ_PREFLUSH flag; Microsoft’s public advisory lists Azure Linux as the Microsoft-distributed product that “includes this open‑source library and is...
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    • azure linux device mapper io throttle linux kernel
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    Linux Kernel dm Cleanup Patch CVE-2024-50277: Defensive Fix for Allocation Failures

    A small, defensive upstream patch in the Linux kernel closed CVE-2024-50277 — a device-mapper (dm) crash that occurs when blk_alloc_disk fails and leaves md->disk set to an error pointer that is later dereferenced during device cleanup. The flaw is not a remote, privilege-escalation exploit; it...
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    • defensive programming device mapper kernel patch linux kernel
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