CVE-2024-36957

MEDIUM

Linux kernel - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm

Description

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.

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