https://vulnerability.circl.lu Contains only the most 10 recent entries. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification python-feedgen en Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:39:10 +0000 https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2024-38616 <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux, linux_kernel</p> <p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p> <p>wifi: carl9170: re-fix fortified-memset warning</p> <p>The carl9170_tx_release() function sometimes triggers a fortified-memset warning in my randconfig builds:</p> <p>In file included from include/linux/string.h:254, from drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c:40: In function &#39;fortify_memset_chk&#39;, inlined from &#39;carl9170_tx_release&#39; at drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c:283:2, inlined from &#39;kref_put&#39; at include/linux/kref.h:65:3, inlined from &#39;carl9170_tx_put_skb&#39; at drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c:342:9: include/linux/fortify-string.h:493:25: error: call to &#39;__write_overflow_field&#39; declared with attribute warning: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Werror=attribute-warning] 493 | __write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size);</p> <p>Kees previously tried to avoid this by using memset_after(), but it seems this does not fully address the problem. I noticed that the memset_after() here is done on a different part of the union (status) than the original cast was from (rate_driver_data), which may confuse the compiler.</p> <p>Unfortunately, the memset_after() trick does not work on driver_rates[] because that is part of an anonymous struct, and I could not get struct_group() to do this either. Using two separate memset() calls on the two members does address the warning though.</p> <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux, linux_kernel</p> <p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p> <p>wifi: carl9170: re-fix fortified-memset warning</p> <p>The carl9170_tx_release() function sometimes triggers a fortified-memset warning in my randconfig builds:</p> <p>In file included from include/linux/string.h:254, from drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c:40: In function &#39;fortify_memset_chk&#39;, inlined from &#39;carl9170_tx_release&#39; at drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c:283:2, inlined from &#39;kref_put&#39; at include/linux/kref.h:65:3, inlined from &#39;carl9170_tx_put_skb&#39; at drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c:342:9: include/linux/fortify-string.h:493:25: error: call to &#39;__write_overflow_field&#39; declared with attribute warning: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Werror=attribute-warning] 493 | __write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size);</p> <p>Kees previously tried to avoid this by using memset_after(), but it seems this does not fully address the problem. I noticed that the memset_after() here is done on a different part of the union (status) than the original cast was from (rate_driver_data), which may confuse the compiler.</p> <p>Unfortunately, the memset_after() trick does not work on driver_rates[] because that is part of an anonymous struct, and I could not get struct_group() to do this either. Using two separate memset() calls on the two members does address the warning though.</p> https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2024-38616