CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-5321
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-772
Description
Memory leak in drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.c in the videobuf subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.x through 4.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging /dev/video access for a series of mmap calls that require new allocations, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-6761. NOTE: as of 2016-06-18, this affects only 11 drivers that have not been updated to use videobuf2 instead of videobuf.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.0 <= 4.20.15)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://linuxtv.org/irc/v4l/index.php?date=2010-07-29 Not Applicable
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/08/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827340 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120571 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620629 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://linuxtv.org/irc/v4l/index.php?date=2010-07-29 Not Applicable
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/08/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827340 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120571 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620629 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry