CVE-2024-50188 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Linux
CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer48 documents7 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.8
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.22%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 8
Latest updateMay 26
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: phy: dp83869: fix memory corruption when enabling fiber
When configuring the fiber port, the DP83869 PHY driver incorrectly
calls linkmode_set_bit() with a bit mask (1 << 10) rather than a bit
number (10). This corrupts some other memory location -- in case of
arm64 the priv pointer in the same structure.
Since the advertising flags are updated from supported at the end of the
function the incorrect line isn't needed at …
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages10 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxa29de52ba2a156873505d8b8cef44e69925b8114 — 21b5af7f0c99b3bf1fd02016e6708b613acbcaf4+6