CVE-2024-42238: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: cs_dsp: Return error if block header overflows file Return an error from cs_dsp_power_up() if a block header is longer than the amount of data left in the file. The previous code in cs_dsp_load() and cs_dsp_load_coeff() would loop while there was enough data left in the file for a valid region. This protected against overrunning the end of the file data, but it didn't abort the file processing with an error.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.16, before 6.1.100 (fixed in 6.1.100); from 6.2, before 6.6.41 (fixed in 6.6.41); from 6.7, before 6.9.10 (fixed in 6.9.10)

Published 2024-08-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.