vulnerability
Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-26818): Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
4 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N) | 04/17/2024 | 07/15/2024 | 03/31/2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tools/rtla: Fix clang warning about mount_point var size
clang is reporting this warning:
$ make HOSTCC=clang CC=clang LLVM_IAS=1
[...]
clang -O -g -DVERSION=\"6.8.0-rc3\" -flto=auto -fexceptions
-fstack-protector-strong -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
-fstack-clash-protection -Wall -Werror=format-security
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS
$(pkg-config --cflags libtracefs) -c -o src/utils.o src/utils.c
src/utils.c:548:66: warning: 'fscanf' may overflow; destination buffer in argument 3 has size 1024, but the corresponding specifier may require size 1025 [-Wfortify-source]
548 | while (fscanf(fp, "%*s %" STR(MAX_PATH) "s %99s %*s %*d %*d\n", mount_point, type) == 2) {
| ^
Increase mount_point variable size to MAX_PATH+1 to avoid the overflow.
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