fkie_cve-2021-47511
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2024-05-24 15:15
Modified
2025-09-29 17:09
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: pcm: oss: Fix negative period/buffer sizes The period size calculation in OSS layer may receive a negative value as an error, but the code there assumes only the positive values and handle them with size_t. Due to that, a too big value may be passed to the lower layers. This patch changes the code to handle with ssize_t and adds the proper error checks appropriately.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00a860678098fcd9fa8db2b5fb9d2ddf4776d4ccPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02b2b691b77cd7b951fa7b6c9d44d4e472cdc823Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/502e1146873d870f87da3b8f93d6bf2de5f38d0cPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8af815ab052eaf74addbbfb556d63ce2137c0e1bPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d2479c960875ca1239bcb899f386970c13d9cfePatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be8869d388593e57223ad39297c8e54be632f2f2Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f12c8a7515f641885677960af450082569a87243Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f96c0959c1ee92adc911c10d6ec209af50105049Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00a860678098fcd9fa8db2b5fb9d2ddf4776d4ccPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02b2b691b77cd7b951fa7b6c9d44d4e472cdc823Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/502e1146873d870f87da3b8f93d6bf2de5f38d0cPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8af815ab052eaf74addbbfb556d63ce2137c0e1bPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d2479c960875ca1239bcb899f386970c13d9cfePatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be8869d388593e57223ad39297c8e54be632f2f2Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f12c8a7515f641885677960af450082569a87243Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f96c0959c1ee92adc911c10d6ec209af50105049Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 5.16
linux linux_kernel 5.16
linux linux_kernel 5.16
linux linux_kernel 5.16


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