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        "dateReserved": "2025-04-16T07:17:33.804Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-05-01T14:09:05.569Z",
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetlink: Bounds-check struct nlmsgerr creation\n\nIn preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE doing bounds-check on memcpy(),\nswitch from __nlmsg_put to nlmsg_put(), and explain the bounds check\nfor dealing with the memcpy() across a composite flexible array struct.\nAvoids this future run-time warning:\n\n  memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 32) of single field \"&errmsg->msg\" at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2447 (size 16)"
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