HighFix available
media: dvb-core: add missing buffer index check
Type: advisorySources: OSV
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: dvb-core: add missing buffer index check dvb_vb2_expbuf() didn't check if the given buffer index was for a valid buffer. Add this check.
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.11.8
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-50291
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 19:02 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
media: dvb-core: add missing buffer index check
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 19 Nov 2024, 01:30 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: dvb-core: add missing buffer index check dvb_vb2_expbuf() didn't check if the given buffer index was for a valid buffer. Add this check.
osv:CVE-2024-50291
Kernel
Fixed versions: 6.11.8
Complete source record
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