CVE-2022-49743 (GCVE-0-2022-49743)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-27 16:42 – Updated: 2026-01-19 12:17
VLAI?
Title
ovl: Use "buf" flexible array for memcpy() destination
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ovl: Use "buf" flexible array for memcpy() destination
The "buf" flexible array needs to be the memcpy() destination to avoid
false positive run-time warning from the recent FORTIFY_SOURCE
hardening:
memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 93) of single field "&fh->fb"
at fs/overlayfs/export.c:799 (size 21)
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
cbe7fba8edfc8cb8e621599e376f8ac5c224fa72 , < 012cdef22000f3104e4fa8224ad29fde509b8caf
(git)
Affected: cbe7fba8edfc8cb8e621599e376f8ac5c224fa72 , < a77141a06367825d639ac51b04703d551163e36c (git) Affected: cbe7fba8edfc8cb8e621599e376f8ac5c224fa72 , < 07a96977b2f462337a9121302de64277b8747ab1 (git) Affected: cbe7fba8edfc8cb8e621599e376f8ac5c224fa72 , < cf8aa9bf97cadf85745506c6a3e244b22c268d63 (git) |
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