CVE-2022-48967: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFC: nci: Bounds check struct nfc_target arrays While running under CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y, syzkaller reported: memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 129) of single field "target->sensf_res" at net/nfc/nci/ntf.c:260 (size 18) This appears to be a legitimate lack of bounds checking in nci_add_new_protocol(). Add the missing checks.

Affected products

  • Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.4, before 4.9.336 (fixed in 4.9.336); from 4.10, before 4.14.302 (fixed in 4.14.302); from 4.15, before 4.19.269 (fixed in 4.19.269); from 4.20, before 5.4.227 (fixed in 5.4.227); from 5.5, before 5.10.159 (fixed in 5.10.159); from 5.11, before 5.15.83 (fixed in 5.15.83); …

Published 2024-10-21. Last modified 2026-08-04.