Denial of Service and Kernel Memory Write Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's videobuf2-v4l2.c

Denial of Service and Kernel Memory Write Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's videobuf2-v4l2.c

CVE-2016-4568 · HIGH Severity

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

drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-v4l2.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel memory write operation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted number of planes in a VIDIOC_DQBUF ioctl call.

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