Description

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

f2fs: avoid format-overflow warning

With gcc and W=1 option, there's a warning like this:

fs/f2fs/compress.c: In function ‘f2fs_init_page_array_cache’:
fs/f2fs/compress.c:1984:47: error: ‘%u’ directive writing between
1 and 7 bytes into a region of size between 5 and 8
[-Werror=format-overflow=]
1984 | sprintf(slab_name, "f2fs_page_array_entry-%u:%u", MAJOR(dev),
MINOR(dev));
| ^~

String "f2fs_page_array_entry-%u:%u" can up to 35. The first "%u" can up
to 4 and the second "%u" can up to 7, so total size is "24 + 4 + 7 = 35".
slab_name's size should be 35 rather than 32.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2023-52748

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 12.41% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c041f5ddef00c731c541e00bc8ae97b8c84c682f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4088d7d8f1123006d46a42edf51b8c960a58ef9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/526dd7540a09ecf87b5f54f3ab4e0a2528f25a79
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fca08fd3085253b48fcb1bd243a0a5e18821a00
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3eebe636cac53886bd5d1cdd55e082ec9e84983f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0d4e8acb3789c5a8651061fbab62ca24a45c063

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