title: sysctl: Fix out of bounds access for empty sysctl registers
description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sysctl: Fix out of bounds access for empty sysctl registers
When registering tables to the sysctl subsystem there is a check to see
if header is a permanently empty directory (used for mounts). This check
evaluates the first element of the ctl_table. This results in an out of
bounds evaluation when registering empty directories.
The function register_sysctl_mount_point now passes a ctl_table of size
1 instead of size 0. It now relies solely on the type to identify
a permanently empty register.
Make sure that the ctl_table has at least one element before testing for
permanent emptiness.
affected:
{
product: Linux
vendor: Linux
defaultStatus: unaffected
repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
versions:
version: 1da177e4c3f4, lessThan: 15893975e9e3, status: affected, versionType: git
version: 1da177e4c3f4, lessThan: 2ae7081bc101, status: affected, versionType: git
version: 1da177e4c3f4, lessThan: 315552310c7d, status: affected, versionType: git
}
{
product: Linux
vendor: Linux
defaultStatus: affected
repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
versions:
version: 6.6.16, lessThanOrEqual: 6.6.*, status: unaffected, versionType: custom
version: 6.7.4, lessThanOrEqual: 6.7.*, status: unaffected, versionType: custom
version: 6.8, lessThanOrEqual: *, status: unaffected, versionType: original_commit_for_fix
}
