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CVE-2024-26818

2024-04-1700:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
4
linux
kernel
vulnerability
cve-2024-26818
clang
warning
mount point
buffer overflow
userspace
tracing
real-time
ubuntu
package

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

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.

Notes

Author Note
Priority reason: Vulnerability is in a userspace tool used for tracing real-time events in the kernel.
sbeattie The rtla tool is not included in the Ubuntu linux-tools packages.

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.5%