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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-04T01:37:16.213Z
Reserved: 2021-08-07T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-38160

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Status : Modified
Published: 2021-08-07T04:15:06.967
Modified: 2024-11-21T06:16:31.280
Link: CVE-2021-38160
