published May 3, 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
of: fdt: fix off-by-one error in unflatten_dt_nodes()
Commit 78c44d910d3e ("drivers/of: Fix depth when unflattening devicetree")
forgot to fix up the depth check in the loop body in unflatten_dt_nodes()
which makes it possible to overflow the nps[] buffer...
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static
analysis tool.