https://vulnerability.circl.lu Contains only the most 10 recent entries. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification python-feedgen en Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:58:26 +0000 https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2022-50749 <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux</p> <p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p> <p>acct: fix potential integer overflow in encode_comp_t()</p> <p>The integer overflow is descripted with following codes: &gt; 317 static comp_t encode_comp_t(u64 value) &gt; 318 { &gt; 319 int exp, rnd; ...... &gt; 341 exp &lt;&lt;= MANTSIZE; &gt; 342 exp += value; &gt; 343 return exp; &gt; 344 }</p> <p>Currently comp_t is defined as type of &#39;__u16&#39;, but the variable &#39;exp&#39; is type of &#39;int&#39;, so overflow would happen when variable &#39;exp&#39; in line 343 is greater than 65535.</p> <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux</p> <p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p> <p>acct: fix potential integer overflow in encode_comp_t()</p> <p>The integer overflow is descripted with following codes: &gt; 317 static comp_t encode_comp_t(u64 value) &gt; 318 { &gt; 319 int exp, rnd; ...... &gt; 341 exp &lt;&lt;= MANTSIZE; &gt; 342 exp += value; &gt; 343 return exp; &gt; 344 }</p> <p>Currently comp_t is defined as type of &#39;__u16&#39;, but the variable &#39;exp&#39; is type of &#39;int&#39;, so overflow would happen when variable &#39;exp&#39; in line 343 is greater than 65535.</p> https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2022-50749