CVE-2010-5329

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

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.

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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 7 years ago

2017-04-24 06:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-04-27 01:59:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel

References

http://linuxtv.org/irc/v4l/index.php?date=2010-07-29

Third Party Advisory

[oss-security] 20150208 Re: kernel: v4l: videobuf: hotfix a bug on multiple calls to mmap() - Linux kernel

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

97986

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

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