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CVE-2021-38160

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2021-08-07 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In drivers/char/virtio_console.c in the Linux kernel before 5.13.4, data corruption or loss can be triggered by an untrusted device that supplies a buf->len value exceeding the buffer size. NOTE: the vendor indicates that the cited data corruption is not a vulnerability in any existing use case; the length validation was added solely for robustness in the face of anomalous host OS behavior

Affected Platforms

Netapp SolidfireNetapp Hci Management NodeRedhat Enterprise LinuxNetapp Hci Storage NodeNetapp Hci Compute NodeDebian Debian LinuxNetapp Element SoftwareLinux Linux KernelNetapp Hci Bootstrap Os

Weakness Type

CWE-120

References