Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFC: nci: Add bounds checking in nci_hci_create_pipe()
The “pipe” variable is a u8 which comes from the network. If it’s more than 127, then it results in memory corruption in the caller, nci_hci_connect_gate().
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+10 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFC: nci: Add bounds checking in nci_hci_create_pipe()
The “pipe” variable is a u8 which comes from the network. If it’s more than 127, then it results in memory corruption in the caller, nci_hci_connect_gate().