CVE-2021-42739 (GCVE-0-2021-42739)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-20 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:38
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EPSS
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Summary
The firewire subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.14.13 has a buffer overflow related to drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-avc.c and drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-ci.c, because avc_ca_pmt mishandles bounds checking.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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