Out-of-bounds Read in Linux

CVE-2024-50259

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netdevsim: Add trailing zero to terminate the string in nsim_nexthop_bucket_activity_write() This was found by a static analyzer. We should not forget the trailing zero after copy_from_user() if we will further do some string operations, sscanf() in this case. Adding a trailing zero will ensure that the function performs properly.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.002 (12.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.