7.8
CWE
125
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2024-50074: parport: Proper fix for array out-of-bounds access

First published: Tue Oct 29 2024(Updated: )

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: parport: Proper fix for array out-of-bounds access The recent fix for array out-of-bounds accesses replaced sprintf() calls blindly with snprintf(). However, since snprintf() returns the would-be-printed size, not the actually output size, the length calculation can still go over the given limit. Use scnprintf() instead of snprintf(), which returns the actually output letters, for addressing the potential out-of-bounds access properly.

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

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Linux Linux kernel>=5.10.224<5.10.228
Linux Linux kernel>=5.11<5.15.169
Linux Linux kernel>=5.16<6.1.114
Linux Linux kernel>=6.2<6.6.58
Linux Linux kernel>=6.7<6.11.5
Linux Linux kernel=6.12-rc1
Linux Linux kernel=6.12-rc2
Linux Linux kernel=6.12-rc3
Redhat Enterprise Linux=8.0
Redhat Enterprise Linux=9.0

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