CVE-2021-46943 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: staging/intel-ipu3: Fix set_fmt error handling

If there in an error during a set_fmt do not overwrite the previous sizes with the invalid config.

Without this patch v4l2-compliance ends up allocating 4GiB of RAM and causing the following OOPs

[ 38.662975] ipu3-imgu 0000:00:05.0: swiotlb buffer is full (sz: 4096 bytes) [ 38.662980] DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 4096 bytes at device 0000:00:05.0 [ 38.663010] general protection fault: 0000 [1] PREEMPT SMP

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a03fb1e8a110658215a4cefc3e2ad53279e496a6 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6b81b897f6f9445d57f8d47c4e060ec21556137 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34892ea938387d83ffcfb7775ec55f0f80767916 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fb617e37a39db0a3eca4489431359d0bdf3b9bc https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad91849996f9dd79741a961fd03585a683b08356