CVE-2024-38587

Updated on 19 Jun 2024

Severity

5.3 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.3
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

speakup: Fix sizeof() vs ARRAY_SIZE() bug

The “buf” pointer is an array of u16 values. This code should be using ARRAY_SIZE() (which is 256) instead of sizeof() (which is 512), otherwise it can the still got out of bounds.

Details

Affected product:
Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
Affected packages:
linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+2 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

speakup: Fix sizeof() vs ARRAY_SIZE() bug

The “buf” pointer is an array of u16 values. This code should be using ARRAY_SIZE() (which is 256) instead of sizeof() (which is 512), otherwise it can the still got out of bounds.

Fixes