CVE-2025-37891 — Classic Buffer Overflow in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV3.2
EPSS
0.1%
top 79.51%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 19
Latest updateMar 25
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: ump: Fix buffer overflow at UMP SysEx message conversion
The conversion function from MIDI 1.0 to UMP packet contains an
internal buffer to keep the incoming MIDI bytes, and its size is 4, as
it was supposed to be the max size for a MIDI1 UMP packet data.
However, the implementation overlooked that SysEx is handled in a
different format, and it can be up to 6 bytes, as found in
do_convert_to_ump(). It leads eventually to…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9