CVE-2024-38621

Technical Description

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

media: stk1160: fix bounds checking in stk1160_copy_video()

The subtract in this condition is reversed. The ->length is the length

of the buffer. The ->bytesused is how many bytes we have copied thus

far. When the condition is reversed that means the result of the

subtraction is always negative but since it's unsigned then the result

is a very high positive value. That means the overflow check is never

true.

Additionally, the ->bytesused doesn't actually work for this purpose

because we're not writing to "buf->mem + buf->bytesused". Instead, the

math to calculate the destination where we are writing is a bit

involved. You calculate the number of full lines already written,

multiply by two, skip a line if necessary so that we start on an odd

numbered line, and add the offset into the line.

To fix this buffer overflow, just take the actual destination where we

are writing, if the offset is already out of bounds

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References