CVE-2015-9289

medium

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.

References

https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.1.4

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1fa2337a315a2448c5434f41e00d56b01a22283c

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1fa2337a315a2448c5434f41e00d56b01a22283c

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-9129

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-07-27

Updated: 2019-12-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00113