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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 12, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-40994

CVE-2024-40994

Description

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

ptp: fix integer overflow in max_vclocks_store

On 32bit systems, the "4 * max" multiply can overflow. Use kcalloc() to do the allocation to prevent this.

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