Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
speakup: Avoid crash on very long word
In case a console is set up really large and contains a really long word (> 256 characters), we have to stop before the length of the word buffer.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 5.14.0 (+11 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
speakup: Avoid crash on very long word
In case a console is set up really large and contains a really long word (> 256 characters), we have to stop before the length of the word buffer.