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Debian: CVE-2025-23157: linux, linux-6.1 -- security update

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 1, 2025
Added
May 5, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

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

media: venus: hfi_parser: add check to avoid out of bound access

There is a possibility that init_codecs is invoked multiple times during
manipulated payload from video firmware. In such case, if codecs_count
can get incremented to value more than MAX_CODEC_NUM, there can be OOB
access. Reset the count so that it always starts from beginning.

Solutions

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