Linux DoS

The vulnerability of the videousercopy function in the Linux kernel’s drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c file, within the a v4l2extcontrols data structure of the Linux operating system, is related to resource management errors. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to trigger a...

UBUNTU-CVE-2010-5329

The videousercopy function in drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 relies on the count value of a v4l2extcontrols data structure to determine a kmalloc size, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a large value...