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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 27, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-49743

CVE-2022-49743

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ovl: Use "buf" flexible array for memcpy() destination

The "buf" flexible array needs to be the memcpy() destination to avoid false positive run-time warning from the recent FORTIFY_SOURCE hardening:

memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 93) of single field "&fh->fb" at fs/overlayfs/export.c:799 (size 21)

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