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Debian: CVE-2021-38160: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2021-38160: linux -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/07/2021
Created
11/30/2021
Added
11/29/2021
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

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