Security Advisory

CVE-2024-49973

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-10-21 18:02:21
Last updated 2026-05-12 12:13:50
Assigner Linux
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: r8169: add tally counter fields added with RTL8125 RTL8125 added fields to the tally counter, what may result in the chip dma'ing these new fields to unallocated memory. Therefore make sure that the allocated memory area is big enough to hold all of the tally counter values, even if we use only parts of it.