ghsa-xjw7-4j5c-v8ww
Vulnerability from github
Published
2025-01-11 15:30
Modified
2025-11-03 21:32
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:

net/smc: check iparea_offset and ipv6_prefixes_cnt when receiving proposal msg

When receiving proposal msg in server, the field iparea_offset and the field ipv6_prefixes_cnt in proposal msg are from the remote client and can not be fully trusted. Especially the field iparea_offset, once exceed the max value, there has the chance to access wrong address, and crash may happen.

This patch checks iparea_offset and ipv6_prefixes_cnt before using them.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-49571"
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    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/smc: check iparea_offset and ipv6_prefixes_cnt when receiving proposal msg\n\nWhen receiving proposal msg in server, the field iparea_offset\nand the field ipv6_prefixes_cnt in proposal msg are from the\nremote client and can not be fully trusted. Especially the\nfield iparea_offset, once exceed the max value, there has the\nchance to access wrong address, and crash may happen.\n\nThis patch checks iparea_offset and ipv6_prefixes_cnt before using them.",
  "id": "GHSA-xjw7-4j5c-v8ww",
  "modified": "2025-11-03T21:32:07Z",
  "published": "2025-01-11T15:30:28Z",
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