vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2021-42739: Heap buffer overflow in firedtv driver (Multiple Advisories)
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Oct 20, 2021 | Jan 12, 2022 | Jul 9, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 20, 2021
Added
Jan 12, 2022
Modified
Jul 9, 2025
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)
no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

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