CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-25388

Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error

Published: Mar 27, 2024 | Modified: Aug 01, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

drivers/wlan/wlan_mgmt,c in RT-Thread through 5.0.2 has an integer signedness error and resultant buffer overflow.

Weakness

The product uses a signed primitive and performs a cast to an unsigned primitive, which can produce an unexpected value if the value of the signed primitive can not be represented using an unsigned primitive.

Extended Description

It is dangerous to rely on implicit casts between signed and unsigned numbers because the result can take on an unexpected value and violate assumptions made by the program. Often, functions will return negative values to indicate a failure. When the result of a function is to be used as a size parameter, using these negative return values can have unexpected results. For example, if negative size values are passed to the standard memory copy or allocation functions they will be implicitly cast to a large unsigned value. This may lead to an exploitable buffer overflow or underflow condition.

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