# CVE-2019-12454: An issue was discovered in wcd9335\_codec\_enable\_dec in sound/soc/codecs/wcd9335.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-05-30 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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. NOTE: The vendor disputes this issues as not being a vulnerability because switching to kmemdup_nul() would only fix a security issue if the source string wasn't NUL-terminated, which is not the case

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## References

- https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/29/705
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound.git/commit/?h=for-5.3&id=a54988113985ca22e414e132054f234fc8a92604
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J36BIJTKEPUOZKJNHQBUZA47RQONUKOI/
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1136963#c1
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13523672
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13523672?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS

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