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CVE-2021-33655 (GCVE-0-2021-33655)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-07-18 14:45 – Updated: 2024-08-03 23:58
VLAI
Summary
When sending malicous data to kernel by ioctl cmd FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO,kernel will write memory out of bounds.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a kernel Affected: 5.18 5.19.0-rc1
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