Stack-based buffer overflow in oFono - CVE-2024-7547
Published: August 6, 2024
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local user to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in SMS Decoder within the parsing of SMS PDUs. A local user can trigger stack-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system with elevated privileges.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Affected software
Ubuntu
Fedora
ofono (Ubuntu package)
ofono
How to mitigate CVE-2024-7547
ofono - addressed in versions 2.14-1.fc40, 2.14-1.fc41