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GHSA-FPF5-XW2P-F3M5

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-07-12 15:31 – Updated: 2025-11-04 00:30

Details

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.

Severity ?

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2024-40994 (GCVE-0-2024-40994)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-12 12:37 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:58

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.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b03da87d0b7074c9…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d50d62d5e6ee6aa03…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/666e934d749e50a37…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1fccfb4638ee6188…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81d23d2a24012e448…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 44c494c8e30e35713c7d11ca3c5ab332cbfabacf , < 4b03da87d0b7074c93d9662c6e1a8939f9b8b86e (git)
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Affected: 44c494c8e30e35713c7d11ca3c5ab332cbfabacf , < e1fccfb4638ee6188377867f6015d0ce35764a8e (git)
Affected: 44c494c8e30e35713c7d11ca3c5ab332cbfabacf , < 81d23d2a24012e448f651e007fac2cfd20a45ce0 (git)

Linux

Affected: 5.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.162 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.96 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.36 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.7 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-FPF5-XW2P-F3M5

CVE-2024-40994 (GCVE-0-2024-40994)

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