CVE-2024-50291

media: dvb-core: add missing buffer index check

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Nov 19, 2024
Updated: Aug 5, 2026
Reserved: Oct 21, 2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: dvb-core: add missing buffer index check

dvb_vb2_expbuf() didn't check if the given buffer index was for a valid buffer. Add this check.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Linux
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-129 Improper Validation of Array Index

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	7dc866df40127dceac9ba83ae16c0c11e7d1666f to before 721c37af0355cc0b540909c57fd7930dc99c72d8Affected 7dc866df40127dceac9ba83ae16c0c11e7d1666f to before fa88dc7db176c79b50adb132a56120a1d4d9d18bAffected
LinuxLinux	6.8Affected before 6.8Not affected 6.11.8 through 6.11.*Not affected 6.12 and laterNot affected

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