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
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-08-07T03:31:12

Updated: 2021-12-17T00:06:39

Reserved: 2021-08-07T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2021-38160

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-08-07T04:15:06.967

Modified: 2024-05-17T01:59:29.307


Link: CVE-2021-38160

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