HighFix available
speakup: Fix sizeof() vs ARRAY_SIZE() bug
Type: advisorySources: OSV
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: speakup: Fix sizeof() vs ARRAY_SIZE() bug The "buf" pointer is an array of u16 values. This code should be using ARRAY_SIZE() (which is 256) instead of sizeof() (which is 512), otherwise it can the still got out of bounds.
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4.19.316, 5.10.219, 5.15.161, 5.4.278, 6.1.93, 6.6.33, 6.8.12, 6.9.3
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-38587
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 6 Nov 2026, 18:36 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: speakup: Fix sizeof() vs ARRAY_SIZE() bug The "buf" pointer is an array of u16 values. This code should be using ARRAY_SIZE() (which is 256) instead of sizeof() (which is 512), otherwise it can the still got out of bounds.
osv:CVE-2024-38587
Kernel
Fixed versions: 4.19.316, 5.4.278, 5.10.219, 5.15.161, 6.1.93, 6.6.33, 6.8.12, 6.9.3
Complete source record
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