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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-42739: kernel security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-42739: kernel security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/20/2021
Created
03/01/2022
Added
02/28/2022
Modified
03/26/2024

Description

The firewire subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.14.13 has a buffer overflow related to drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-avc.c and drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-ci.c, because avc_ca_pmt mishandles bounds checking.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp10-upgrade-kernel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp10-upgrade-kernel-abi-stablelists
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp10-upgrade-kernel-tools
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp10-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp10-upgrade-python3-perf

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