Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: firewire-motu: fix buffer overflow in hwdep read for DSP events
The DSP event handling code in hwdep_read() could write more bytes to the user buffer than requested, when a user provides a buffer smaller than the event header size (8 bytes).
Fix by using min_t() to clamp the copy size, This ensures we never copy more than the user requested.
Details
- Affected product:
- CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 4.18.0 (+2 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: firewire-motu: fix buffer overflow in hwdep read for DSP events
The DSP event handling code in hwdep_read() could write more bytes to the user buffer than requested, when a user provides a buffer smaller than the event header size (8 bytes).
Fix by using min_t() to clamp the copy size, This ensures we never copy more than the user requested.