Linux Kernel up to 6.10.9 cougar_report_fixup out-of-bounds

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.10.9 and classified as problematic. The impacted element is the function cougar_report_fixup. Such manipulation leads to out-of-bounds. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-46747. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.10.9 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function cougar_report_fixup. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: cougar: fix slab-out-of-bounds Read in cougar_report_fixup report_fixup for the Cougar 500k Gaming Keyboard was not verifying that the report descriptor size was correct before accessing it

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-46747 since 09/11/2024. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 208053 (Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2024-055)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 4.19.322, 5.4.284, 5.10.226, 5.15.167, 6.1.110, 6.6.51 or 6.10.10 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch e239e44dcd41/fac3cb3c6428/34185de73d74/890dde6001b6/e4a602a45aec/30e9ce7cd559/48b2108efa20/a6e9c391d45b is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (208053) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2024-2173). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Debian Linux
• Google Cloud Platform
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• IBM InfoSphere Guardium
• Oracle Linux
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Open Source Linux Kernel
• SolarWinds Security Event Manager

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 4.19.321
• 5.4.283
• 5.10.225
• 5.15.166
• 6.1.109
• 6.6.0
• 6.6.1
• 6.6.2
• 6.6.3
• 6.6.4
• 6.6.5
• 6.6.6
• 6.6.7
• 6.6.8
• 6.6.9
• 6.6.10
• 6.6.11
• 6.6.12
• 6.6.13
• 6.6.14
• 6.6.15
• 6.6.16
• 6.6.17
• 6.6.18
• 6.6.19
• 6.6.20
• 6.6.21
• 6.6.22
• 6.6.23
• 6.6.24
• 6.6.25
• 6.6.26
• 6.6.27
• 6.6.28
• 6.6.29
• 6.6.30
• 6.6.31
• 6.6.32
• 6.6.33
• 6.6.34
• 6.6.35
• 6.6.36
• 6.6.37
• 6.6.38
• 6.6.39
• 6.6.40
• 6.6.41
• 6.6.42
• 6.6.43
• 6.6.44
• 6.6.45
• 6.6.46
• 6.6.47
• 6.6.48
• 6.6.49
• 6.6.50
• 6.10.0
• 6.10.1
• 6.10.2
• 6.10.3
• 6.10.4
• 6.10.5
• 6.10.6
• 6.10.7
• 6.10.8
• 6.10.9

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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