CVE-2022-49766
Published: May 1, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
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)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < aff4eb16f589c3af322a2582044bca365381fcd6affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 710d21fdff9a98d621cd4e64167f3ef8af4e2fd1 |
Linux | Linux | affected 2.6.12unaffected 0 - < 2.6.12unaffected 6.0.10 - <= 6.0.*unaffected 6.1 - <= * |
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