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GHSA-5682-9VMG-WM34

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-12-08 03:31 – Updated: 2026-08-04 12:34

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: mediatek: vcodec: Fix potential array out-of-bounds in decoder queue_setup

variable nplanes is provided by user via system call argument. The possible value of q_data->fmt->num_planes is 1-3, while the value of nplanes can be 1-8. The array access by index i can cause array out-of-bounds.

Fix this bug by checking *nplanes against the array size.

Severity

7.1 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2023-53748 (GCVE-0-2023-53748)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-08 01:19 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:15

Title

media: mediatek: vcodec: Fix potential array out-of-bounds in decoder queue_setup

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: mediatek: vcodec: Fix potential array out-of-bounds in decoder queue_setup variable *nplanes is provided by user via system call argument. The possible value of q_data->fmt->num_planes is 1-3, while the value of *nplanes can be 1-8. The array access by index i can cause array out-of-bounds. Fix this bug by checking *nplanes against the array size.

Severity

7.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48e4e06e2c5fe1fda…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8e19bf3b4aebd855…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fbcf730cb89c3647…

Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: 4.10 Unaffected: 0 , < 4.10 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.30 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.3.4 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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