CVE-2021-38160 (GCVE-0-2021-38160)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-07 03:31 – Updated: 2024-08-04 01:37 Disputed
VLAI
Summary
In drivers/char/virtio_console.c in the Linux kernel before 5.13.4, data corruption or loss can be triggered by an untrusted device that supplies a buf->len value exceeding the buffer size. NOTE: the vendor indicates that the cited data corruption is not a vulnerability in any existing use case; the length validation was added solely for robustness in the face of anomalous host OS behavior
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2325 records in the last 180 days details
References
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      "id": "CVE-2021-38160",
      "initial_release_date": "2021-07-03T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_affected": "43",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "154",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "kernel: data corruption or loss can be triggered by an untrusted device that supplies a buf-\u003elen value exceeding the buffer size in drivers/char/virtio_console.c",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2021/cve-2021-38160.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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