Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-38623

Critical

Published: 21 June 2024

Published
21 June 2024
Modified
24 March 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0025 48.4th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-38623 is a critical-severity Improper Validation of Array Index (CWE-129) vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 48.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Use variable length array instead of fixed size Should fix smatch warning: ntfs_set_label() error: __builtin_memcpy() 'uni->name' too small (20 vs 256)

CWE(s)
CWE-129

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

linux
linux kernel
5.15 — 5.15.161 · 5.16 — 6.1.93 · 6.2 — 6.6.33

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References