🛡️ AZL-53670 — kernel

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

CVE-2024-50180 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.173.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fbdev: sisfb: Fix strbuf array overflow

The values of the variables xres and yres are placed in strbuf.

These variables are obtained from strbuf1.

The strbuf1 array contains digit characters

and a space if the array contains non-digit characters.

Then, when executing sprintf(strbuf, "%ux%ux8", xres, yres);

more than 16 bytes will be written to strbuf.

It is suggested to increase the size of the strbuf array to 24.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

AZL-53670 is recorded against 1 package.

  • kernel (fixed in 5.15.173.1-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 8 November 2024 and last revised on 21 April 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-11-08
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-04-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel — 5.15.173.1-1

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