CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5. It affects Linux. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2024-49571
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.22%
Linux
Original NVD Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/smc: check iparea_offset and ipv6_prefixes_cnt when receiving proposal msg When receiving proposal msg in server, the field iparea_offset and the field ipv6_prefixes_cnt in proposal msg are from the remote client and can not be fully trusted. Especially the field iparea_offset, once exceed the max value, there has the chance to access wrong address, and crash may happen. This patch checks iparea_offset and ipv6_prefixes_cnt before using them.
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