CVE-2021-42739 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2021-42739

The firewire subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.14.13 has...

Vulnerability Description

The firewire subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.14.13 has a buffer overflow related to drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-avc.c and drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-ci.c, because avc_ca_pmt mishandles bounds checking.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

linux kernel, fedora, debian linux, starwind san \& nas, starwind virtual san, communications cloud native core binding support function, communications cloud native core network exposure function, communications cloud native core policy
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 33, 34, 35, 9.0, v8r12, v8r13, 22.1.3, 22.1.1, 22.2.0

Timeline

Official Publish: October 20th, 2021
Last Modified: August 4th, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.