Kernel memory disclosure via unterminated debugfs input
Published May 30, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026
Out-of-bounds read in the Linux ice driver 6.8 through 6.8.9 allows local users to disclose kernel memory or crash the system via debugfs input. In drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_debugfs.c, the write handler copies exactly count bytes with memdup_user and passes the unterminated buffer to sscanf, which can read beyond the allocation. Exploitation requires local low-privileged access to the affected ice debugfs interface; the reported consequences are confidentiality loss and a system crash, with no integrity impact.
Summary
What happened
Out-of-bounds read in the Linux ice driver 6.8 through 6.8.9 allows local users to disclose kernel memory or crash the system via debugfs input. In drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_debugfs.c, the write handler copies exactly count bytes with memdup_user and passes the unterminated buffer to sscanf, which can read beyond the allocation. Exploitation requires local low-privileged access to the affected ice debugfs interface; the reported consequences are confidentiality loss and a system crash, with no integrity impact.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-36935
- Published
- May 30, 2024
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-125
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- May 30, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.8
- Affected versionversion=96a9a9341cdaea0c3bce4c134e04a2a42ae899ac <5ff4de981983ed84f29b5d92b6550ec054e12a92
- Affected versionversion=96a9a9341cdaea0c3bce4c134e04a2a42ae899ac <666854ea9cad844f75a068f32812a2d78004914a
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