vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2021-42739: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 20, 2021
Added
Dec 20, 2021
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
NEW

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