What is CVE-2024-46688?

CVE-2024-46688 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-09-13.

How severe is CVE-2024-46688?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Linux

CVE-2024-46688

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: erofs: fix out-of-bound access when z_erofs_gbuf_growsize() partially fails If z_erofs_gbuf_growsize() partially fails on a global buffer due to memory allocation failur…

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.002 (9.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Linux — versions d6db47e571dcaecaeaafa8840d00ae849ae3907b, 6.10, 0
Linux Linux_kernel — versions 6.11

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-46688?: CVE-2024-46688 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-09-13.
How severe is CVE-2024-46688?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.