CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-40994

7.8 HIGH Published 2024-07-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-07-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-190

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ptp: fix integer overflow in max_vclocks_store On 32bit systems, the "4 * max" multiply can overflow. Use kcalloc() to do the allocation to prevent this.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.14 < 5.15.162) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.96) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.36) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.9.7) • linux linux kernel 6.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

References