Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-KERNELHEADERS-7587508
  • published5 Aug 2024
  • disclosed30 Jul 2024

Introduced: 30 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-42159  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by Centos.

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

scsi: mpi3mr: Sanitise num_phys

Information is stored in mr_sas_port->phy_mask, values larger then size of this field shouldn't be allowed.