Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
of: fdt: fix off-by-one error in unflatten_dt_nodes()
Commit 78c44d910d3e (“drivers/of: Fix depth when unflattening devicetree”) forgot to fix up the depth check in the loop body in unflatten_dt_nodes() which makes it possible to overflow the nps[] buffer…
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static analysis tool.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 5.14.0-11 (+4 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
of: fdt: fix off-by-one error in unflatten_dt_nodes()
Commit 78c44d910d3e (“drivers/of: Fix depth when unflattening devicetree”) forgot to fix up the depth check in the loop body in unflatten_dt_nodes() which makes it possible to overflow the nps[] buffer…
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static analysis tool.