UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53063

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: dvbdev: prevent the risk of out of memory access The dvbdev contains a static variable used to store dvb minors. The behavior of it depends if CONFIGDVBDYNAMICMINORS is set or not. When not set, dvbregisterdevice won't che...

CVE-2024-53063 media: dvbdev: prevent the risk of out of memory access

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: dvbdev: prevent the risk of out of memory access The dvbdev contains a static variable used to store dvb minors. The behavior of it depends if CONFIGDVBDYNAMICMINORS is set or not. When not set, dvbregisterdevice won't che...

CVE-2024-53063

The CVE-2024-53063 issue affects the Linux kernel’s media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c. It centers on a static variable that stores DVB minors and behavior that depends on CONFIG_DVB_DYNAMIC_MINORS. When the dynamic-minors feature is not set, dvb_register_device() may not enforce boundaries because it relie...