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CVE-2021-38160
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-08-07T04:15:06.967 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:01:36.330

Summary

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

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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