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CVE-2021-42739
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.7
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-10-20T07:15:09.140 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:10:03.027

Summary

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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