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nvd416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67NVD:CVE-2024-26818
HistoryApr 17, 2024 - 10:15 a.m.

CVE-2024-26818

2024-04-1710:15:08
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
web.nvd.nist.gov
linux
kernel
vulnerability
clang
warning
buffer
overflow

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.5%

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

tools/rtla: Fix clang warning about mount_point var size

clang is reporting this warning:

$ make HOSTCC=clang CC=clang LLVM_IAS=1
[…]
clang -O -g -DVERSION="6.8.0-rc3" -flto=auto -fexceptions
-fstack-protector-strong -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
-fstack-clash-protection -Wall -Werror=format-security
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS
$(pkg-config --cflags libtracefs) -c -o src/utils.o src/utils.c

src/utils.c:548:66: warning: ‘fscanf’ may overflow; destination buffer in argument 3 has size 1024, but the corresponding specifier may require size 1025 [-Wfortify-source]
548 | while (fscanf(fp, “%*s %” STR(MAX_PATH) “s %99s %*s %*d %*d\n”, mount_point, type) == 2) {
| ^

Increase mount_point variable size to MAX_PATH+1 to avoid the overflow.

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.5%