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Red Hat: CVE-2024-54456: kernel: NFS: Fix potential buffer overflowin nfs_sysfs_link_rpc_client() (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 27, 2025
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jun 17, 2026

Description

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

NFS: Fix potential buffer overflowin nfs_sysfs_link_rpc_client()

name is char[64] where the size of clnt->cl_program->name remains
unknown. Invoking strcat() directly will also lead to potential buffer
overflow. Change them to strscpy() and strncat() to fix potential
issues.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
Title
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