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Tracker / CVE-2021-47511

CVE-2021-47511

Medium 5.5

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.4.295
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.258
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.221
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.165
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.9.293
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.8
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.85

Analysis

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