CVE-2024-39480 kdb: Fix buffer overflow during tab-complete

2024-07-0506:55:09

Linux

github.com

cve-2024-39480

kdb

buffer overflow

tab-complete

linux kernel

vulnerability

fix

strncpy

memmove

memcpy

explicit boundary checks

AI Score

7.3

Confidence

High

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

Technical Impact

total

JSON

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

kdb: Fix buffer overflow during tab-complete

Currently, when the user attempts symbol completion with the Tab key, kdb
will use strncpy() to insert the completed symbol into the command buffer.
Unfortunately it passes the size of the source buffer rather than the
destination to strncpy() with predictably horrible results. Most obviously
if the command buffer is already full but cp, the cursor position, is in
the middle of the buffer, then we will write past the end of the supplied
buffer.

Fix this by replacing the dubious strncpy() calls with memmove()/memcpy()
calls plus explicit boundary checks to make sure we have enough space
before we start moving characters around.

ADP Affected

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      "cpe:2.3:a:linux:linux_kernel:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
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