CVE-2021-42739 (GCVE-0-2021-42739)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-20 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:38
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
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