CVE-2024-38381

high

Published 2024-06-21 · Modified 2026-05-12

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CVSS v3

7.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: nci: Fix uninit-value in nci_rx_work syzbot reported the following uninit-value access issue [1] nci_rx_work() parses received packet from ndev->rx_q. It should be validated header size, payload size and total packet size before processing the packet. If an invalid packet is detected, it should be silently discarded.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

70%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`6.1.94-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`5.10.221-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`6.9.7-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.9.7-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`6.9.7-1`
linux-kernel		affected	`4.19.316`

References

CWEs

CWE-908

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.