CVE-2023-52464

2024-02-2315:15:08

CWE-119

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

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linux kernel

edac

thunderx

out-of-bounds access

string vulnerability

fix

strlcat

7.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

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().

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