CVE-2022-49766
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49766
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49766.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49766
- Downstream
- Published
- 2025-05-01T15:15:59Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:26Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netlink: Bounds-check struct nlmsgerr creation
In preparation for FORTIFYSOURCE doing bounds-check on memcpy(), switch from _nlmsgput to nlmsgput(), and explain the bounds check for dealing with the memcpy() across a composite flexible array struct. Avoids this future run-time warning:
memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 32) of single field "&errmsg->msg" at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2447 (size 16)
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