CVE-2025-68753 (GCVE-0-2025-68753)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-01-05 09:32
Modified
2026-10-19 18:05
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: firewire-motu: add bounds check in put_user loop for DSP events In the DSP event handling code, a put_user() loop copies event data. When the user buffer size is not aligned to 4 bytes, it could overwrite beyond the buffer boundary. Fix by adding a bounds check before put_user().
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Linux Linux Version: 634ec0b2906efd46f6f57977e172aa3470aca432
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