CVE-2024-57802
CVE-2024-57802CVE-2024-57802
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netrom: check buffer length before accessing it
Syzkaller reports an uninit value read from ax25cmp when sending raw message
through ieee802154 implementation.
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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ax25cmp+0x3a5/0x460 net/ax25/ax25_addr.c:119
ax25cmp+0x3a5/0x460 net/ax25/ax25_addr.c:119
nr_dev_get+0x20e/0x450 net/netrom/nr_route.c:601
nr_route_frame+0x1a2/0xfc0 net/netrom/nr_route.c:774
nr_xmit+0x5a/0x1c0 net/netrom/nr_dev.c:144
__netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4940 [inline]
netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4954 [inline]
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3548 [inline]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x247/0xa10 net/core/dev.c:3564
__dev_queue_xmit+0x33b8/0x5130 net/core/dev.c:4349
dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3134 [inline]
raw_sendmsg+0x654/0xc10 net/ieee802154/socket.c:299
ieee802154_sock_sendmsg+0x91/0xc0 net/ieee802154/socket.c:96
sock_sendmsg
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.4 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |