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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-04-24T06:12:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T04:17:10.424Z

Reserved: 2017-04-23T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2010-5329

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-04-24T06:59:00.257

Modified: 2024-11-21T01:23:03.587

Link: CVE-2010-5329

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2010-07-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-5329 - Bugzilla