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CVE-2021-38160

Published: 2021-08-07T04:15Z
Last Modified: 2024-11-21T06:16Z
Source: MITRE CVE List
License: MITRE-CVE-TOS
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 > MITRE Terms of Use apply – see LICENSE‑MITRE.txt