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CVE-2022-49766

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CVE-2022-49766

Published: May 1, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netlink: Bounds-check struct nlmsgerr creation In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE doing bounds-check on memcpy(), switch from __nlmsg_put to nlmsg_put(), and explain the bounds check for dealing with the memcpy() across a composite flexible array struct. Avoids this future run-time warning: memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 32) of single field "&errmsg->msg" at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2447 (size 16)

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < aff4eb16f589c3af322a2582044bca365381fcd6
affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 710d21fdff9a98d621cd4e64167f3ef8af4e2fd1

Linux

Linux

affected
2.6.12
unaffected
0 - < 2.6.12
unaffected
6.0.10 - <= 6.0.*
unaffected
6.1 - <= *

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