CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-9289

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2019-07-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-07-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

In the Linux kernel before 4.1.4, a buffer overflow occurs when checking userspace params in drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24116.c. The maximum size for a DiSEqC command is 6, according to the userspace API. However, the code allows larger values such as 23.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 4.1.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References