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CVE-2024-50259

kernel: netdevsim: Add trailing zero to terminate the string in nsim_nexthop_bucket_activity_write()

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · November 9, 2024

Updated · October 29, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netdevsim: Add trailing zero to terminate the string in nsim_nexthop_bucket_activity_write()

This was found by a static analyzer. We should not forget the trailing zero after copy_from_user() if we will further do some string operations, sscanf() in this case. Adding a trailing zero will ensure that the function performs properly.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read