github - ghsa-83h3-pmwm-wj9j

ghsa-83h3-pmwm-wj9j

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-03-27 18:31

Modified

2025-10-30 15:32

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

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

ovl: Use "buf" flexible array for memcpy() destination

The "buf" flexible array needs to be the memcpy() destination to avoid false positive run-time warning from the recent FORTIFY_SOURCE hardening:

memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 93) of single field "&fh->fb" at fs/overlayfs/export.c:799 (size 21)

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CVE-2022-49743 (GCVE-0-2022-49743)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-03-27 16:42

Modified

2025-05-04 08:44

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: Use "buf" flexible array for memcpy() destination The "buf" flexible array needs to be the memcpy() destination to avoid false positive run-time warning from the recent FORTIFY_SOURCE hardening: memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 93) of single field "&fh->fb" at fs/overlayfs/export.c:799 (size 21)

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a77141a06367825d639ac51b04703d551163e36c
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07a96977b2f462337a9121302de64277b8747ab1
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf8aa9bf97cadf85745506c6a3e244b22c268d63

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Vendor

Product

Version

Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2

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