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Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types Affecting kernel-doc package, versions <0:3.10.0-862.el7

Severity

 Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELDOC-4779848
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 12 Oct 2015
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Introduced: 12 Oct 2015

CVE-2017-9725 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-681 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 kernel-doc to version 0:3.10.0-862.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:1062.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-doc package and not the kernel-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, during DMA allocation, due to wrong data type of size, allocation size gets truncated which makes allocation succeed when it should fail.