CVE-2010-5321 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://linuxtv.org/irc/v4l/index.php?date=2010-07-29 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/08/4 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827340 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120571 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620629

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

4.3