CVE-2024-43816 (GCVE-0-2024-43816)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-08-17 09:21
Modified
2026-08-05 11:36
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: scsi: lpfc: Revise lpfc_prep_embed_io routine with proper endian macro usages On big endian architectures, it is possible to run into a memory out of bounds pointer dereference when FCP targets are zoned. In lpfc_prep_embed_io, the memcpy(ptr, fcp_cmnd, sgl->sge_len) is referencing a little endian formatted sgl->sge_len value. So, the memcpy can cause big endian systems to crash. Redefine the *sgl ptr as a struct sli4_sge_le to make it clear that we are referring to a little endian formatted data structure. And, update the routine with proper le32_to_cpu macro usages.
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Linux Linux Version: af20bb73ac2591631d504f3f859f073bcdb7e11e
Version: af20bb73ac2591631d504f3f859f073bcdb7e11e
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