CVE-2024-42292

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

Publication date:

17/08/2024

Last modified:

03/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kobject_uevent: Fix OOB access within zap_modalias_env() zap_modalias_env() wrongly calculates size of memory block to move, so will cause OOB memory access issue if variable MODALIAS is not the last one within its @env parameter, fixed by correcting size to memmove.

Impact

Vector 3.x

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

Base Score: 7.10 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.10

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.15.1 (including)	4.19.320 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.20 (including)	5.4.282 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.224 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.165 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.103 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.44 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.10.3 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:4.15:-::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:4.15:rc6::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:4.15:rc7::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:4.15:rc8::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:4.15:rc9::::::

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CVE-2024-42292

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools