CVE-2023-52596 (GCVE-0-2023-52596)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-03-06 06:45
Modified
2025-05-04 07:39
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sysctl: Fix out of bounds access for empty sysctl registers When registering tables to the sysctl subsystem there is a check to see if header is a permanently empty directory (used for mounts). This check evaluates the first element of the ctl_table. This results in an out of bounds evaluation when registering empty directories. The function register_sysctl_mount_point now passes a ctl_table of size 1 instead of size 0. It now relies solely on the type to identify a permanently empty register. Make sure that the ctl_table has at least one element before testing for permanent emptiness.
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Linux Linux Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
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