A fortify-source warning in the Linux kernel’s RDMA mlx5 code has been closed out as CVE-2024-26907, and while the fix is narrowly targeted at a compile-time/runtime bounds check in a memcpy path, the practical impact on high-performance network stacks — and on the availability of systems that...
Microsoft’s brief advisory that “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” is accurate — but it is a product‑scoped attestation, not a categorical statement that no other Microsoft product could include the same vulnerable RDMA/mlx5 code.
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