CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-49571

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-01-11 Modified 2026-08-04 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-01-11
Last modified
2026-08-04
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.16 < 5.10.233) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.176) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.122) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.68) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.7) • linux linux kernel 6.13

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