CVE-2024-54456 (GCVE-0-2024-54456)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-27 02:18 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:53
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Title
NFS: Fix potential buffer overflowin nfs_sysfs_link_rpc_client()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFS: Fix potential buffer overflowin nfs_sysfs_link_rpc_client() name is char[64] where the size of clnt->cl_program->name remains unknown. Invoking strcat() directly will also lead to potential buffer overflow. Change them to strscpy() and strncat() to fix potential issues.
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Linux Linux Affected: e13b549319a684dd80c4cc25e9567a5c84007e32 , < 19b3ca651b4b473878c73539febe477905041442 (git)
Affected: e13b549319a684dd80c4cc25e9567a5c84007e32 , < dd8830779b77f4d1206d28d02ad56a03fc0e78f7 (git)
Affected: e13b549319a684dd80c4cc25e9567a5c84007e32 , < e8e0eb5601d4a6c74c336e3710afe3a0348c469d (git)
Affected: e13b549319a684dd80c4cc25e9567a5c84007e32 , < 49fd4e34751e90e6df009b70cd0659dc839e7ca8 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.5
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.79 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.16 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.4 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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