CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3496
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-08-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
Buffer overflow in format descriptor parsing in the uvc_parse_format function in drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_driver.c in uvcvideo in the video4linux (V4L) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.1 has unknown impact and attack vectors.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.26.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/30/655 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31982 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26.1 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:223 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30514 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44184 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/30/655 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31982 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26.1 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:223 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30514 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44184 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry