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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-35944" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-19T10:10:48.183Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:41:37.801Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:11.582Z" 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-2024-35944" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-35944.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-35944" title: "VMCI: Fix memcpy() run-time warning in dg_dispatch_as_host()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nVMCI: Fix memcpy() run-time warning in dg_dispatch_as_host()\n\nSyzkaller hit 'WARNING in dg_dispatch_as_host' bug.\n\nmemcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 56) of single field \"&dg_info-\u003emsg\"\nat drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c:237 (size 24)\n\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1555 at drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c:237\ndg_dispatch_as_host+0x88e/0xa60 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c:237\n\nSome code commentry, based on my understanding:\n\n544 #define VMCI_DG_SIZE(_dg) (VMCI_DG_HEADERSIZE + (size_t)(_dg)-\u003epayload_size)\n/// This is 24 + payload_size\n\nmemcpy(&dg_info-\u003emsg, dg, dg_size);\n\tDestination = dg_info-\u003emsg ---\u003e this is a 24 byte\n\t\t\t\t\tstructure(struct vmci_datagram)\n\tSource = dg --\u003e this is a 24 byte structure (struct vmci_datagram)\n\tSize = dg_size = 24 + payload_size\n\n{payload_size = 56-24 =32} -- Syzkaller managed to set payload_size to 32.\n\n 35 struct delayed_datagram_info {\n 36 struct datagram_entry *entry;\n 37 struct work_struct work;\n 38 bool in_dg_host_queue;\n 39 /* msg and msg_payload must be together. */\n 40 struct vmci_datagram msg;\n 41 u8 msg_payload[];\n 42 };\n\nSo those extra bytes of payload are copied into msg_payload[], a run time\nwarning is seen while fuzzing with Syzkaller.\n\nOne possible way to fix the warning is to split the memcpy() into\ntwo parts -- one -- direct assignment of msg and second taking care of payload.\n\nGustavo quoted:\n\"Under FORTIFY_SOURCE we should not copy data across multiple members\nin a structure.\"" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a110b7ebb9c674a2b591af2780dd512ad0198d50","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e87bb99d2df6512d8ee37a5d63d2ca9a39a8c051"},{"version":"a110b7ebb9c674a2b591af2780dd512ad0198d50","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f15eca95138b3d4ec17b63c3c1937b0aa0d3624b"},{"version":"a110b7ebb9c674a2b591af2780dd512ad0198d50","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ad78c5047dc4076d0b3c4fad4f42ffe9c86e8100"},{"version":"a110b7ebb9c674a2b591af2780dd512ad0198d50","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"130b0cd064874e0d0f58e18fb00e6f3993e90c74"},{"version":"a110b7ebb9c674a2b591af2780dd512ad0198d50","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"feacd430b42bbfa9ab3ed9e4f38b86c43e348c75"},{"version":"a110b7ebb9c674a2b591af2780dd512ad0198d50","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dae70a57565686f16089737adb8ac64471570f73"},{"version":"a110b7ebb9c674a2b591af2780dd512ad0198d50","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"491a1eb07c2bd8841d63cb5263455e185be5866f"},{"version":"a110b7ebb9c674a2b591af2780dd512ad0198d50","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"19b070fefd0d024af3daa7329cbc0d00de5302ec"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.9"},{"version":"4.19.312","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.274","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.215","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.155","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.86","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.27","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.8.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.8.*"},{"version":"6.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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