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 Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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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 |
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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