# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-27401"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-13T10:29:53.862Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:29:34.613Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-27401"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-27401.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-27401"
title: "firewire: nosy: ensure user_length is taken into account when fetching packet contents"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfirewire: nosy: ensure user_length is taken into account when fetching packet contents\n\nEnsure that packet_buffer_get respects the user_length provided. If\nthe length of the head packet exceeds the user_length, packet_buffer_get\nwill now return 0 to signify to the user that no data were read\nand a larger buffer size is required. Helps prevent user space overflows."
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