# CVE-2023-54284: media: av7110: prevent underflow in write\_ts\_to\_decoder()

- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-12-30 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 2.6.31

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: av7110: prevent underflow in write_ts_to_decoder() The buf[4] value comes from the user via ts_play(). It is a value in the u8 range. The final length we pass to av7110_ipack_instant_repack() is "len - (buf[4] + 1) - 4" so add a check to ensure that the length is not negative. It's not clear that passing a negative len value does anything bad necessarily, but it's not best practice. With the new bounds checking the "if (!len)" condition is no longer possible or required so remove that.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6680af5be9f08d830567e9118f76d3e64684db8f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6606e2404ee9e20a3ae5b42fc3660d41b739ed3e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/620b983589e0223876bf1463b01100a9c67b56ba
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86ba65e5357bfbb6c082f68b265a292ee1bdde1d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca4ce92e3ec9fd3c7c936b912b95c53331d5159c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/423350af9e27f005611bd881b1df2cab66de943d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77eeb4732135c18c2fdfab80839645b393f3e774
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b93ab60fe9ed04be0ff155bc30ad39dea23e22b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eed9496a0501357aa326ddd6b71408189ed872eb

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