vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2022-49766: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 1, 2025
Added
May 5, 2025
Modified
May 27, 2025

Description

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

netlink: Bounds-check struct nlmsgerr creation

In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE doing bounds-check on memcpy(),
switch from __nlmsg_put to nlmsg_put(), and explain the bounds check
for dealing with the memcpy() across a composite flexible array struct.
Avoids this future run-time warning:

memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 32) of single field "&errmsg->msg" at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2447 (size 16)

Solution(s)

debian-upgrade-linuxno-fix-debian-deb-package
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