Vulnerability · Published Jun 19, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2024-38560scsi: bfa: Ensure the copied buf is NUL terminated

High 7.1

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 18% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.1High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 81.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: bfa: Ensure the copied buf is NUL terminated Currently, we allocate a nbytes-sized kernel buffer and copy nbytes from userspace to that buffer. Later, we use sscanf on this buffer but we don't ensure that the string is terminated inside the buffer, this can lead to OOB read when using sscanf. Fix this issue by using memdup_user_nul instead of memdup_user.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.1.94-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38560
Debian:13linux6.8.12-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38560
Debian:14linux6.8.12-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-121.131UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-121.131USN-7007-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-40.40UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1069.75UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1069.75USN-7007-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1013.14UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1013.14~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1072.81USN-7009-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1072.81UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1012.14UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1012.14~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1072.81.1USN-7009-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1072.81.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1068.76USN-7007-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1068.76UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1012.13UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1012.13~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1066.72UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1066.72USN-7007-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1008.11UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1052.59USN-7007-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1052.59UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-40.40~22.04.3UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1062.65UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1062.65USN-7007-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1010.10UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1010.10~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1064.70USN-7007-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1064.70UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1066.71UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1066.71USN-7007-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-121.131USN-7007-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-121.131UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-40.40.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-40.40.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1064.65USN-7007-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1064.65UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1011.11UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1011.11~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1011.11.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1028.28UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1016.16UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.86.8.0-1010.10UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1067.73USN-7007-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1067.73UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1010.10UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1010.10~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1062.65UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1062.65USN-7007-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1009.10UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv6.8.0-40.40.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.86.8.0-40.40.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1035.39UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38560

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 9f30b674759b9a2da25aefe25d885161d8a911cb – before 481fc0c8617304a67649027c4a44723a139a04629f30b674759b9a2da25aefe25d885161d8a911cb – before 595a6b98deec01b6dbb20139f71edcd5fb760ec29f30b674759b9a2da25aefe25d885161d8a911cb – before 00b425ff0891283207d7bad607a2412225274d7a9f30b674759b9a2da25aefe25d885161d8a911cb – before 1708e3cf2488788cba5489e4f913d227de757baf9f30b674759b9a2da25aefe25d885161d8a911cb – before 7d3e694c4fe30f3aba9cd5ae86fb947a54c3db5c9f30b674759b9a2da25aefe25d885161d8a911cb – before 204714e68015d6946279719fd464ecaf57240f359f30b674759b9a2da25aefe25d885161d8a911cb – before 7510fab46b1cbd1680e2a096e779aec3334b41439f30b674759b9a2da25aefe25d885161d8a911cb – before ecb76200f5557a2886888aaa53702da1ab9e6cdf
Linux Linux 3.19

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