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cvelistMitreCVELIST:CVE-2021-38160
HistoryAug 07, 2021 - 3:31 a.m.

CVE-2021-38160

2021-08-0703:31:12
mitre
www.cve.org

8.1 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

14.2%

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