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CVE-2023-52464
Linux Linux — EDAC/thunderx: Fix possible out-of-bounds string access
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U H H H 7.8 .0027 17.2 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 41003396f932d7f027725c7acebb6a7caa41dc3e – —
Linux 4.12 – 4.19.306
TIMELINE
Feb 20 Reserved by Linux
Feb 23 Published (CNA: Linux)
Oct 15 ENRICHED — CVE-2023-52464 (Linux). Received CVSS 7.8 and CPE data from NVD.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
EDAC/thunderx: Fix possible out-of-bounds string access
Enabling -Wstringop-overflow globally exposes a warning for a common bug
in the usage of strncat():
drivers/edac/thunderx_edac.c: In function 'thunderx_ocx_com_threaded_isr':
drivers/edac/thunderx_edac.c:1136:17: error: 'strncat' specified bound 1024 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]
1136 | strncat(msg, other, OCX_MESSAGE_SIZE);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
...
1145 | strncat(msg, other, OCX_MESSAGE_SIZE);
...
1150 | strncat(msg, other, OCX_MESSAGE_SIZE);
...
Apparently the author of this driver expected strncat() to behave the
way that strlcat() does, which uses the size of the destination buffer
as its third argument rather than the length of the source buffer. The
result is that there is no check on the size of the allocated buffer.
Change it to strlcat().
[ bp: Trim compiler output, fixup commit message. ]
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| February 20, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| February 23, 2024 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| October 15, 2026 | ENRICHED | ENRICHED — CVE-2023-52464 (Linux). Received CVSS 7.8 and CPE data from NVD. |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 41003396f932d7f027725c7acebb6a7caa41dc3e | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 4.12 | 4.19.306 |
About this page
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