CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-38621

7.1 HIGH Published 2024-06-21 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-06-21
Last modified
2026-10-15
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: stk1160: fix bounds checking in stk1160_copy_video() The subtract in this condition is reversed. The ->length is the length of the buffer. The ->bytesused is how many bytes we have copied thus far. When the condition is reversed that means the result of the subtraction is always negative but since it's unsigned then the result is a very high positive value. That means the overflow check is never true. Additionally, the ->bytesused doesn't actually work for this purpose because we're not writing to "buf->mem + buf->bytesused". Instead, the math to calculate the destination where we are writing is a bit involved. You calculate the number of full lines already written, multiply by two, skip a line if necessary so that we start on an odd numbered line, and add the offset into the line. To fix this buffer overflow, just take the actual destination where we are writing, if the offset is already out of bounds print an error and return. Otherwise, write up to buf->length bytes.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.7 < 4.19.316) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.278) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.219) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.161) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.93) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.33) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.9.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References