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CVE-2023-52987 (GCVE-0-2023-52987)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-27 16:43 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:12
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Title
ASoC: SOF: ipc4-mtrace: prevent underflow in sof_ipc4_priority_mask_dfs_write()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: SOF: ipc4-mtrace: prevent underflow in sof_ipc4_priority_mask_dfs_write() The "id" comes from the user. Change the type to unsigned to prevent an array underflow.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: f4ea22f7aa7536560097d765be56445933d07e0d , < d52f34784e4e2f6e77671a9f104d8a69a3b5d24c (git)
Affected: f4ea22f7aa7536560097d765be56445933d07e0d , < ea57680af47587397f5005d7758022441ed66d54 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.11 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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