CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-68347

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.15%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, in the ALSA firewire-motu driver, a buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the hwdep_read() function when handling DSP events. If a user provides a buffer smaller than 8 bytes, more data than requested may be written, potentially leading to data disclosure or a crash.

Risk Assessment

The risk is the possibility of reading data beyond the user buffer, which could lead to leakage of sensitive information or system instability.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix, which uses the min_t() function to limit the copy size.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: firewire-motu: fix buffer overflow in hwdep read for DSP events The DSP event handling code in hwdep_read() could write more bytes to the user buffer than requested, when a user provides a buffer smaller than the event header size (8 bytes). Fix by using min_t() to clamp the copy size, This ensures we never copy more than the user requested.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS