CWE
401 772
Advisory Published
CVE Published
Updated

CVE-2021-30002

First published: Fri Apr 02 2021(Updated: )

A flaw memory leak in the Linux kernel webcam device functionality was found in the way user calls ioctl that triggers video_usercopy function. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
redhat/kernel-rt<0:4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
0:4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
redhat/kernel<0:4.18.0-425.3.1.el8
0:4.18.0-425.3.1.el8
Linux Linux kernel<5.11.3
Debian Debian Linux=9.0
redhat/Kernel<5.12
5.12
debian/linux
5.10.223-1
5.10.226-1
6.1.115-1
6.1.119-1
6.11.10-1
6.12.5-1

Remedy

To mitigate this issue, prevent the module v4l2-common from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for information on how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically.

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