Stack-based Buffer Overflow Affecting kernel-doc package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELDOC-6464310
  • published18 Apr 2024
  • disclosed18 Mar 2024

Introduced: 18 Mar 2024

CVE-2023-52614  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-doc.

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:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

PM / devfreq: Fix buffer overflow in trans_stat_show

Fix buffer overflow in trans_stat_show().

Convert simple snprintf to the more secure scnprintf with size of PAGE_SIZE.

Add condition checking if we are exceeding PAGE_SIZE and exit early from loop. Also add at the end a warning that we exceeded PAGE_SIZE and that stats is disabled.

Return -EFBIG in the case where we don't have enough space to write the full transition table.

Also document in the ABI that this function can return -EFBIG error.

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