CVE-2024-36957
MEDIUMLinux kernel - Memory Corruption
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-af: avoid off-by-one read from userspace We try to access count + 1 byte from userspace with memdup_user(buffer, count + 1). However, the userspace only provides buffer of count bytes and only these count bytes are verified to be okay to access. To ensure the copied buffer is NUL terminated, we use memdup_user_nul instead.
References (7)
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0003
EPSS Percentile
8.2%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Classification
CWE
CWE-193
Status
published
Affected Products (13)
linux/linux_kernel
< 5.10.217
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
debian/debian_linux
linux/Kernel
< 5.10.217linux
linux/Kernel
< 5.15.159linux
linux/Kernel
< 6.1.91linux
linux/Kernel
< 6.6.31linux
linux/Kernel
< 6.8.10linux
Timeline
Published
May 30, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026