# CVE-2021-28952: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-03-20 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8. The sound/soc/qcom/sdm845.c soundwire device driver has a buffer overflow when an unexpected port ID number is encountered, aka CID-1c668e1c0a0f. (This has been fixed in 5.12-rc4.)

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## References

- https://lore.kernel.org/alsa-devel/20210309142129.14182-2-srinivas.kandagatla%40linaro.org/
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=1c668e1c0a0f74472469cd514f40c9012b324c31
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PTRNPQTZ4GVS46SZ4OBXY5YDOGVPSTGQ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4VCKIOXCOZGXBEZMO5LGGV5MWCHO6FT3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T2S3I4SLRNRUQDOFYUS6IUAZMQNMPNLG/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210430-0003/

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