ghsa-8hjv-w23c-j35h
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Published
2024-08-17 09:30
Modified
2025-11-04 00:31
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Details

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

kobject_uevent: Fix OOB access within zap_modalias_env()

zap_modalias_env() wrongly calculates size of memory block to move, so will cause OOB memory access issue if variable MODALIAS is not the last one within its @env parameter, fixed by correcting size to memmove.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-42292"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
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    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-08-17T09:15:09Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkobject_uevent: Fix OOB access within zap_modalias_env()\n\nzap_modalias_env() wrongly calculates size of memory block to move, so\nwill cause OOB memory access issue if variable MODALIAS is not the last\none within its @env parameter, fixed by correcting size to memmove.",
  "id": "GHSA-8hjv-w23c-j35h",
  "modified": "2025-11-04T00:31:12Z",
  "published": "2024-08-17T09:30:24Z",
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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}


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