# CVE-2024-42301: dev/parport: fix the array out-of-bounds risk

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-08-17 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 2.6.12

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dev/parport: fix the array out-of-bounds risk Fixed array out-of-bounds issues caused by sprintf by replacing it with snprintf for safer data copying, ensuring the destination buffer is not overflowed. Below is the stack trace I encountered during the actual issue: [ 66.575408s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,4]Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: do_hardware_base_addr+0xcc/0xd0 [parport] [ 66.575408s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,5]CPU: 4 PID: 5118 Comm: QThread Tainted: G S W O 5.10.97-arm64-desktop #7100.57021.2 [ 66.575439s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,6]TGID: 5087 Comm: EFileApp [ 66.575439s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,7]Hardware name: HUAWEI HUAWEI QingYun PGUX-W515x-B081/SP1PANGUXM, BIOS 1.00.07 04/29/2024 [ 66.575439s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,8]Call trace: [ 66.575469s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,9] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1c0 [ 66.575469s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,0] show_stack+0x14/0x20 [ 66.575469s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,1] dump_stack+0xd4/0x10c [ 66.575500s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,2] panic+0x1d8/0x3bc [ 66.575500s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,3] __stack_chk_fail+0x2c/0x38 [ 66.575500s] [pid:5118,cpu4,QThread,4] do_hardware_base_addr+0xcc/0xd0 [parport]

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/166a0bddcc27de41fe13f861c8348e8e53e988c8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47b3dce100778001cd76f7e9188944b5cb27a76d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a44f88f7576bc1916d8d6293f5c62fbe7cbe03e0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c719b393374d3763e64900ee19aaed767d5a08d6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f4da759092a1a6ce35fb085182d02de8cc4cc84
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b579ea3516c371ecf59d073772bc45dfd28c8a0e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7789a1d6792af410aa9b39a1eb237ed24fa2170a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab11dac93d2d568d151b1918d7b84c2d02bacbd5

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