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CVE-2021-43389 (GCVE-0-2021-43389)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-04 18:39 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:55
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.14.15. There is an array-index-out-of-bounds flaw in the detach_capi_ctr function in drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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