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Change History

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

netlink: Bounds-check struct nlmsgerr creation

In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE doing bounds-check on memcpy(),
switch from __nlmsg_put to nlmsg_put(), and explain the bounds check
for dealing with the memcpy() across a composite flexible array struct.
Avoids this future run-time warning:

  memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 32) of single field "&errmsg->msg" at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2447 (size 16)

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/710d21fdff9a98d621cd4e64167f3ef8af4e2fd1

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aff4eb16f589c3af322a2582044bca365381fcd6