CVE-2022-48932 (GCVE-0-2022-48932)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-08-22 03:31
Modified
2026-08-05 08:52
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: net/mlx5: DR, Fix slab-out-of-bounds in mlx5_cmd_dr_create_fte When adding a rule with 32 destinations, we hit the following out-of-band access issue: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in mlx5_cmd_dr_create_fte+0x18ee/0x1e70 This patch fixes the issue by both increasing the allocated buffers to accommodate for the needed actions and by checking the number of actions to prevent this issue when a rule with too many actions is provided.
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