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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 30, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

phonet: fix rtm_phonet_notify() skb allocation

CVE-2024-36946

Description

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

phonet: fix rtm_phonet_notify() skb allocation

fill_route() stores three components in the skb:

  • struct rtmsg
  • RTA_DST (u8)
  • RTA_OIF (u32)

Therefore, rtm_phonet_notify() should use

NLMSG_ALIGN(sizeof(struct rtmsg)) + nla_total_size(1) + nla_total_size(4)

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