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CVE-2024-43816

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-43816 is a memory out-of-bounds pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's lpfc driver, specifically affecting big-endian architectures when FCP targets are zoned. It arises from incorrect endianness handling during a memcpy operation, potentially leading to system crashes. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), it requires local access and low privileges, but has a high impact on availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 6.10, < 6.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
9.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0019 is in the 46th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel-rt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2024-43816Moderate

kernel: scsi: lpfc: Revise lpfc_prep_embed_io routine with proper endian macro usages

Aug 17, 2024

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/8bc7c617642db6d8d20ee671fb6c4513017e7a7e
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/9fd003f344d502f65252963169df3dd237054e49
Patch