Ensuring Proper Functionality with Trailing Zeroes
CVE-2024-50259

5.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Linux

Status
Vendor
CVE Published:
9 November 2024

What is CVE-2024-50259?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netdevsim: Add trailing zero to terminate the string in nsim_nexthop_bucket_activity_write()

This was found by a static analyzer. We should not forget the trailing zero after copy_from_user() if we will further do some string operations, sscanf() in this case. Adding a trailing zero will ensure that the function performs properly.

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Affected Version(s)

Linux c6385c0b67c527b298111775bc89a7407ba1581e

Linux c6385c0b67c527b298111775bc89a7407ba1581e

Linux c6385c0b67c527b298111775bc89a7407ba1581e < 6a604877160fe5ab2e1985d5ce1ba6a61abe0693

References

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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