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CVE-2023-52565 (GCVE-0-2023-52565)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-02 21:59 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:10
VLAI
Title
media: uvcvideo: Fix OOB read
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: uvcvideo: Fix OOB read If the index provided by the user is bigger than the mask size, we might do an out of bound read.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 15:56 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 367703c3ec4f72208b8cae14310b8a2c955ec565 , < 09635bf4cdd4adf2160198a6041bcc7ca46c0558 (git)
Affected: 40140eda661ea4be219ef194a4f43b7b5e3bbd27 , < 8bcf70d787f7d53a3b85ad394f926cfef3eed023 (git)
Affected: 40140eda661ea4be219ef194a4f43b7b5e3bbd27 , < 41ebaa5e0eebea4c3bac96b72f9f8ae0d77c0bdb (git)
Affected: 42cbbc6b2c39b02e07cbd24dc2155d4edb99dd04 (git)
Affected: 6.1.16 , < 6.1.56 (semver)
Affected: 6.2.3 , < 6.3 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.56 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5.6 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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