The vulnerability in the Linux operating system’s IEEE 1394 (FireWire) driver core allows a attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the Linux operating system’s IEEE 1394 FireWire driver core is related to the use of previously freed memory in the function outboundPhyPacketCallback in the drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c file. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to compromise the...