CVE-2021-38160
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
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| debian / debian_linux | 9.0 | 9.0.x |
| debian / debian_linux | 10.0 | 10.0.x |
| redhat / enterprise_linux | 8.0 | 8.0.x |
| linux / linux_kernel | 5.5 | 5.10.52 |
| linux / linux_kernel | 5.11 | 5.12.19 |
| linux / linux_kernel | 5.13 | 5.13.4 |
| linux / linux_kernel | 4.5 | 4.9.276 |
| linux / linux_kernel | 4.10 | 4.14.240 |
| linux / linux_kernel | 4.15 | 4.19.198 |
| linux / linux_kernel | 4.20 | 5.4.134 |
| linux / linux_kernel | 2.6.24 | 4.4.276 |
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-38160
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.13.4
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d00d8da5869a2608e97cfede094dfc5e11462a46
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00010.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00012.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210902-0010/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4978
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