CVE-2021-42739MediumMicrosoft CVSS 6.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Microsoft security update for CVE-2021-42739

Published
October 27, 2021
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products2

  • cbl2 kernel 5.10.78.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
  • cm1 kernel 5.10.78.1-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update

1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
—Security Update5.10.78.1-1

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2021-42739

EchelonGraph score
6.7 MEDIUM
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

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.

Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2021-42739, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (2)