CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2022-48672
High (7.8) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
of: fdt: fix off-by-one error in unflatten_dt_nodes()
Commit 78c44d910d3e ("drivers/of: Fix depth when unflattening devicetree")
forgot to fix up the depth check in the loop body in unflatten_dt_nodes()
which makes it possible to overflow the nps[] buffer...
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static
analysis tool.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 16% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-193
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2133f451311671c7c42b5640d2b999326b39aa0e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2566706ac6393386a4e7c4ce23fe17f4c98d9aa0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f945a792f67815abca26fa8a5e863ccf3fa1181
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba6b9f7cc1108bad6e2c53b1d6e0156379188db7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbdda20ce363356698835185801a58a28f644853