CVE-2024-44988 net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Fix out-of-bound access
An out-of-bounds access in the Marvell DSA driver allows attackers to cause a denial of service or leak kernel memory.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-44988?
CVE-2024-44988 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 4 Sep 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Fix out-of-bound access
If an ATU violation was caused by a CPU Load operation, the SPID could be larger than DSA_MAX_PORTS (the size of mv88e6xxx_chip.ports[] array).
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-44988?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-44988?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2024-44988 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-44988 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-44988, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44988, GHSA-j3xr-2g3j-267r, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-44988.