Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ovl: Use “buf” flexible array for memcpy() destination
The “buf” flexible array needs to be the memcpy() destination to avoid false positive run-time warning from the recent FORTIFY_SOURCE hardening:
memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 93) of single field “&fh->fb” at fs/overlayfs/export.c:799 (size 21)
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 2.6.32 (+16 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ovl: Use “buf” flexible array for memcpy() destination
The “buf” flexible array needs to be the memcpy() destination to avoid false positive run-time warning from the recent FORTIFY_SOURCE hardening:
memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 93) of single field “&fh->fb” at fs/overlayfs/export.c:799 (size 21)