FKIE_CVE-2024-40994

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-07-12 13:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:47
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ptp: fix integer overflow in max_vclocks_store On 32bit systems, the "4 * max" multiply can overflow. Use kcalloc() to do the allocation to prevent this.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b03da87d0b7074c93d9662c6e1a8939f9b8b86ePatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/666e934d749e50a37f3796caaf843a605f115b6fPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81d23d2a24012e448f651e007fac2cfd20a45ce0Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d50d62d5e6ee6aa03c00bddb91745d0b632d3b0fPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1fccfb4638ee6188377867f6015d0ce35764a8ePatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b03da87d0b7074c93d9662c6e1a8939f9b8b86ePatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/666e934d749e50a37f3796caaf843a605f115b6fPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81d23d2a24012e448f651e007fac2cfd20a45ce0Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d50d62d5e6ee6aa03c00bddb91745d0b632d3b0fPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1fccfb4638ee6188377867f6015d0ce35764a8ePatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 6.10
linux linux_kernel 6.10
linux linux_kernel 6.10
linux linux_kernel 6.10
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