VYPR
Medium severity6.7NVD Advisory· Published Oct 20, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-42739

CVE-2021-42739

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.

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