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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 11, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-49568

CVE-2024-49568

Description

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

net/smc: check v2_ext_offset/eid_cnt/ism_gid_cnt when receiving proposal msg

When receiving proposal msg in server, the fields v2_ext_offset/ eid_cnt/ism_gid_cnt in proposal msg are from the remote client and can not be fully trusted. Especially the field v2_ext_offset, once exceed the max value, there has the chance to access wrong address, and crash may happen.

This patch checks the fields v2_ext_offset/eid_cnt/ism_gid_cnt before using them.

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