The vulnerability of the display driver (drivers/media/platform/vivid) in Linux operating systems, which allows a hacker to cause a service failure

The vulnerability of the display driver drivers/media/platform/vivid in Linux operating systems is related to the simultaneous execution using shared resources with incorrect synchronization. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause service failures by blocking streams using t...

CVE-2019-18683

An issue was discovered in drivers/media/platform/vivid in the Linux kernel through 5.3.8. It is exploitable for privilege escalation on some Linux distributions where local users have /dev/video0 access, but only if the driver happens to be loaded. There are multiple race conditions during...