Astra Linux – vulnerability in linux, linux-5.10, linux-5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kheaders: Use array declaration instead of char Under CONFIGFORTIFYSOURCE, memcpy will check the size of destination and source buffers. Defining kernelheadersdata as “char” would bypass this check. Since these addresses are...

CVE-2023-54056

The CVE-2023-54056 entry concerns the Linux kernel kheaders path. The underlying issue was that kernel_headers_data was defined as a char array, which trips FortifySource checks during memcpy by treating addresses as byte arrays; the fix is to define them as proper arrays (as with other code path...