CVE-2022-50749

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: acct: fix potential integer overflow in encodecompt The integer overflow is descripted with following codes: 317 static compt encodecomptu64 value 318 319 int exp, rnd; ...... 341 exp 342 exp += value; 343 return exp; 344 Current...

CVE-2022-50749

CVE-2022-50749 relates to the Linux kernel where an integer overflow could occur in encode_comp_t(). The function computes a value for comp_t, which is defined as a 16-bit type (__u16), while a local variable exp is an int. If exp becomes greater than 65535, an overflow happens on line 343 return...