CyberRota Analysis
This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.1. It affects Linux.
CVE
CVE-2022-49058
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.1
EPSS
0.32%
Linux
Original NVD Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: potential buffer overflow in handling symlinks Smatch printed a warning: arch/x86/crypto/poly1305_glue.c:198 poly1305_update_arch() error: __memcpy() 'dctx->buf' too small (16 vs u32max) It's caused because Smatch marks 'link_len' as untrusted since it comes from sscanf(). Add a check to ensure that 'link_len' is not larger than the size of the 'link_str' buffer.
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