CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-5329
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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-399
Description
The video_usercopy function in drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 relies on the count value of a v4l2_ext_controls data structure to determine a kmalloc size, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large value.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.38.8)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://linuxtv.org/irc/v4l/index.php?date=2010-07-29 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/08/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97986 www.securityfocus.com
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fc0a80798576f80ca10b3f6c9c7097f12fd1d64e Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fc0a80798576f80ca10b3f6c9c7097f12fd1d64e Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://linuxtv.org/irc/v4l/index.php?date=2010-07-29 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/08/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97986 www.securityfocus.com
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fc0a80798576f80ca10b3f6c9c7097f12fd1d64e Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fc0a80798576f80ca10b3f6c9c7097f12fd1d64e Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory