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Integer Overflow or Wraparound

CVE-2024-47661

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Avoid overflow from uint32_t to uint8_t [WHAT & HOW] dmub_rb_cmd's ramping_boundary has size of uint8_t and it is assigned 0xFFFF. Fix it by changing it to uint8_t with value of 0xFF. This fixes 2 INTEGER_OVERFLOW issues reported by Coverity.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound

The software performs a calculation that can produce an integer overflow or wraparound, when the logic assumes that the resulting value will always be larger than the original value. This can introduce other weaknesses when the calculation is used for resource management or execution control.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published