DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38616

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https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38616
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Upstream
Published
2024-06-19T14:15:21Z
Modified
2025-09-19T07:35:09.480621Z
Summary
[none]
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: carl9170: re-fix fortified-memset warning The carl9170txrelease() function sometimes triggers a fortified-memset warning in my randconfig builds: In file included from include/linux/string.h:254, from drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c:40: In function 'fortifymemsetchk', inlined from 'carl9170txrelease' at drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c:283:2, inlined from 'krefput' at include/linux/kref.h:65:3, inlined from 'carl9170txputskb' at drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c:342:9: include/linux/fortify-string.h:493:25: error: call to '_writeoverflowfield' declared with attribute warning: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use structgroup()? [-Werror=attribute-warning] 493 | _writeoverflowfield(psizefield, size); Kees previously tried to avoid this by using memsetafter(), but it seems this does not fully address the problem. I noticed that the memsetafter() here is done on a different part of the union (status) than the original cast was from (ratedriverdata), which may confuse the compiler. Unfortunately, the memsetafter() trick does not work on driverrates[] because that is part of an anonymous struct, and I could not get structgroup() to do this either. Using two separate memset() calls on the two members does address the warning though.

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.1.94-1

Affected versions

6.*

6.1.27-1
6.1.37-1
6.1.38-1
6.1.38-2~bpo11+1
6.1.38-2
6.1.38-3
6.1.38-4~bpo11+1
6.1.38-4
6.1.52-1
6.1.55-1~bpo11+1
6.1.55-1
6.1.64-1
6.1.66-1
6.1.67-1
6.1.69-1~bpo11+1
6.1.69-1
6.1.76-1~bpo11+1
6.1.76-1
6.1.82-1
6.1.85-1
6.1.90-1~bpo11+1
6.1.90-1
6.1.94-1~bpo11+1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.8.12-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.8.12-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}