CVE-2022-48672 (GCVE-0-2022-48672)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-03 14:51
Modified
2026-05-11 18:44
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of: fdt: fix off-by-one error in unflatten_dt_nodes() Commit 78c44d910d3e ("drivers/of: Fix depth when unflattening devicetree") forgot to fix up the depth check in the loop body in unflatten_dt_nodes() which makes it possible to overflow the nps[] buffer... Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static analysis tool.
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Linux Linux Version: 78c44d910d3e5f96dc6b3695fc1e4efd7c46a455
Version: 78c44d910d3e5f96dc6b3695fc1e4efd7c46a455
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Version: 78c44d910d3e5f96dc6b3695fc1e4efd7c46a455
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