Bug 1716996 (CVE-2019-12454) - CVE-2019-12454 kernel: unspecified impact in function wcd9335_codec_enable_dec in sound/soc/codecs/wcd9335.c
Summary: CVE-2019-12454 kernel: unspecified impact in function wcd9335_codec_enable_de...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2019-12454
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1717003
Blocks: 1717002
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Reported: 2019-06-04 14:01 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2020-02-20 16:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-02-20 16:22:39 UTC
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-06-04 14:01:54 UTC 
An issue was discovered in wcd9335_codec_enable_dec in
sound/soc/codecs/wcd9335.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. It uses kstrndup
instead of kmemdup_nul, which allows attackers to have an unspecified impact via
unknown vectors.

Reference:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/29/705

Upstream commit:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound.git/commit/?h=for-5.3&id=a54988113985ca22e414e132054f234fc8a92604
Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-06-04 14:10:02 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1717003]
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