Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Apr 24, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2010-5321
CVE-2010-5321
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.
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References
5- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/08/4nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cginvdIssue TrackingMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- linuxtv.org/irc/v4l/index.phpnvdNot Applicable
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