CVE-2023-54056
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kheaders: Use array declaration instead of char
Under CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE, memcpy() will check the size of destination
and source buffers. Defining kernel_headers_data as "char" would trip
this check. Since these addresses are treated as byte arrays, define
them as arrays (as done everywhere else).
This was seen with:
$ cat /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz >> /dev/null
detected buffer overflow in memcpy
kernel BUG at lib/string_helpers.c:1027!
...
RIP: 0010:fortify_panic+0xf/0x20
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ikheaders_read+0x45/0x50 [kheaders]
kernfs_fop_read_iter+0x1a4/0x2f0
...
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 13% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a07d2d511e2703efd4387891d49e0326f1157f3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/719459877d58c8aced5845c1e5b98d8d87d09197
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82d2e01b95c439fe55fab5e04fc83387c42d3a48
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b69edab47f1da8edd8e7bfdf8c70f51a2a5d89fb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9f6845a492de20679b84bda6b08be347c5819da