CVE-2024-50259 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netdevsim: Add trailing zero to terminate the string in nsim_nexthop_bucket_activity_write()

This was found by a static analyzer. We should not forget the trailing zero after copy_from_user() if we will further do some string operations sscanf() in this case. Adding a trailing zero will ensure that the function performs properly.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2150f666c6fc301d5d1643ed0f92251f1a0ff0d https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcba86e03b3aac361ea671672cf48eed11f9011c https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a604877160fe5ab2e1985d5ce1ba6a61abe0693 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27bd7a742e171362c9eb52ad5d1d71d3321f949f https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ce1f56a1eaced2523329bef800d004e30f2f76c