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Debian: CVE-2025-21687: linux, linux-6.1 -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 10, 2025
Added
Feb 12, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vfio/platform: check the bounds of read/write syscalls

count and offset are passed from user space and not checked, only
offset is capped to 40 bits, which can be used to read/write out of
bounds of the device.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-linuxdebian-upgrade-linux-6-1
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