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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Unreviewed Published Mar 18, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jun 26, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

block/rnbd-srv: Check for unlikely string overflow

Since "dev_search_path" can technically be as large as PATH_MAX,
there was a risk of truncation when copying it and a second string
into "full_path" since it was also PATH_MAX sized. The W=1 builds were
reporting this warning:

drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-srv.c: In function 'process_msg_open.isra':
drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-srv.c:616:51: warning: '%s' directive output may be truncated writing up to 254 bytes into a region of size between 0 and 4095 [-Wformat-truncation=]
616 | snprintf(full_path, PATH_MAX, "%s/%s",
| ^~
In function 'rnbd_srv_get_full_path',
inlined from 'process_msg_open.isra' at drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-srv.c:721:14: drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-srv.c:616:17: note: 'snprintf' output between 2 and 4351 bytes into a destination of size 4096
616 | snprintf(full_path, PATH_MAX, "%s/%s",
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
617 | dev_search_path, dev_name);
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To fix this, unconditionally check for truncation (as was already done
for the case where "%SESSNAME%" was present).

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 18, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 18, 2024
Last updated Jun 26, 2024

Severity

Unknown

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2023-52618

GHSA ID

GHSA-6285-w63g-86p4

Source code

No known source code

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