PT-2024-14779
CVE-2023-52916
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Published
2023-07-19
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Updated
2026-10-09
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.8
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue is related to a memory overwrite when capturing 1600x900, which could cause the system to crash when system memory usage is tight. The size of the macro block captured is 8x8, and to fix this issue, the height of
src-buf should be 8 aligned. The vulnerability can be reproduced by using 1600x900 to display on the host, mounting an ISO through 'Virtual media' on OpenBMC's web, running a script to do sha continuously, and opening KVM on OpenBMC's web.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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