CVE-2024-50259

Name	CVE-2024-50259
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netdevsim: Add trailing zero to terminate the string in nsim_nexthop_bucket_activity_write() This was found by a static analyzer. We should not forget the trailing zero after copy_from_user() if we will further do some string operations, sscanf() in this case. Adding a trailing zero will ensure that the function performs properly.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-4008-1, DSA-5818-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.237-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.137-1	fixed
	bookworm (security)	6.1.140-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.27-1	fixed
	sid	6.12.29-1	fixed
linux-6.1 (PTS)	bullseye (security)	6.1.137-1~deb11u1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	bullseye	(not affected)
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.119-1	DSA-5818-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.11.7-1
linux-6.1	source	bullseye	6.1.119-1~deb11u1	DLA-4008-1

[bullseye] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/4ce1f56a1eaced2523329bef800d004e30f2f76c (6.12-rc6)