VYPR
Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 7, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024

CVE-2021-38160

CVE-2021-38160

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

Affected products

253

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

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