CVE-2024-40994

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Publication date:

12/07/2024

Last modified:

03/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ptp: fix integer overflow in max_vclocks_store On 32bit systems, the "4 * max" multiply can overflow. Use kcalloc() to do the allocation to prevent this.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.14 (including)	5.15.162 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.96 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.36 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.9.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10:rc3::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10:rc4::::::

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CVE-2024-40994

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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