CVE-2010-5321 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2010-5321

Memory leak in drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.c in the videobuf subsystem in the...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

linux kernel
Vulnerable Versions:
2.6.0

Timeline

Official Publish: April 24th, 2017
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.