CVE-2024-49973

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: r8169: add tally counter fields added with RTL8125 RTL8125 added fields to the tally counter, what may result in the chip dma'ing these new fields to unallocated memory. Therefore make sure that the allocated memory area is big enough to hold all of the tally counter values, even if we use only parts of it.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe44b3bfbf0c74df5712f44458689d0eccccf47d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ced8e8b8f40accfcce4a2bbd8b150aa76d5eff9a

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/991e8b0bab669b7d06927c3e442b3352532e8581

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92bc8647b4d65f4d4bf8afdb206321c1bc55a486

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64648ae8c97ec5a3165021627f5a1658ebe081ca

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/585c048d15ed559f20cb94c8fa2f30077efa4fbc

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21950321ad33d7613b1453f4c503d7b1871deb61

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c723d785adb711496bc64c24240f952f4faaabf

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-10-21

Updated: 2024-11-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium