CVE-2023-52464

HIGH

Linux kernel 4.12.0-4.19.306 - Buffer Overflow in EDAC thunderx Driver via strncat Misuse

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: EDAC/thunderx: Fix possible out-of-bounds string access Enabling -Wstringop-overflow globally exposes a warning for a common bug in the usage of strncat(): drivers/edac/thunderx_edac.c: In function 'thunderx_ocx_com_threaded_isr': drivers/edac/thunderx_edac.c:1136:17: error: 'strncat' specified bound 1024 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-overflow=] 1136 | strncat(msg, other, OCX_MESSAGE_SIZE); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ... 1145 | strncat(msg, other, OCX_MESSAGE_SIZE); ... 1150 | strncat(msg, other, OCX_MESSAGE_SIZE); ... Apparently the author of this driver expected strncat() to behave the way that strlcat() does, which uses the size of the destination buffer as its third argument rather than the length of the source buffer. The result is that there is no check on the size of the allocated buffer. Change it to strlcat(). [ bp: Trim compiler output, fixup commit message. ]

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0027
EPSS Percentile 17.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (19)
Linux/Linux < 4.12
Linux/Linux 4.12
Linux/Linux 4.19.306 - 4.19.*
Linux/Linux 41003396f932d7f027725c7acebb6a7caa41dc3e - 426fae93c01dffa379225eb2bd4d3cdc42c6eec5
Linux/Linux 41003396f932d7f027725c7acebb6a7caa41dc3e - 475c58e1a471e9b873e3e39958c64a2d278275c8
Linux/Linux 41003396f932d7f027725c7acebb6a7caa41dc3e - 5da3b6e7196f0b4f3728e4e25eb20233a9ddfaf6
Linux/Linux 41003396f932d7f027725c7acebb6a7caa41dc3e - 6aa7865ba7ff7f0ede0035180fb3b9400ceb405a
Linux/Linux 41003396f932d7f027725c7acebb6a7caa41dc3e - 700cf4bead80fac994dcc43ae1ca5d86d8959b21
Linux/Linux 41003396f932d7f027725c7acebb6a7caa41dc3e - 71c17ee02538802ceafc830f0736aa35b564e601
Linux/Linux 41003396f932d7f027725c7acebb6a7caa41dc3e - 9dbac9fdae6e3b411fc4c3fca3bf48f70609c398
... and 9 more
Published Feb 23, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026