Linux Kernel up to 5.12.2 Media set_fmt denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.4.117/5.10.35/5.11.19/5.12/5.12.2. It has been classified as critical. The affected element is the function set_fmt of the component Media. Performing a manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2021-46943. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.4.117/5.10.35/5.11.19/5.12/5.12.2 (Operating System). It has been classified as critical. This affects the function set_fmt of the component Media. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: staging/intel-ipu3: Fix set_fmt error handling If there in an error during a set_fmt, do not overwrite the previous sizes with the invalid config. Without this patch, v4l2-compliance ends up allocating 4GiB of RAM and causing the following OOPs [ 38.662975] ipu3-imgu 0000:00:05.0: swiotlb buffer is full (sz: 4096 bytes) [ 38.662980] DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 4096 bytes at device 0000:00:05.0 [ 38.663010] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

The weakness was released 02/27/2024. It is possible to read the advisory at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2021-46943 since 02/25/2024. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

Upgrading to version 5.4.118, 5.10.36, 5.11.20, 5.12.3 or 5.13 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch a03fb1e8a110/c6b81b897f6f/34892ea93838/6fb617e37a39/ad91849996f9 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 5.0
• 5.1
• 5.2
• 5.3
• 5.4
• 5.4.117
• 5.5
• 5.6
• 5.7
• 5.8
• 5.9
• 5.10
• 5.10.0
• 5.10.1
• 5.10.2
• 5.10.3
• 5.10.4
• 5.10.5
• 5.10.6
• 5.10.7
• 5.10.8
• 5.10.9
• 5.10.10
• 5.10.11
• 5.10.12
• 5.10.13
• 5.10.14
• 5.10.15
• 5.10.16
• 5.10.17
• 5.10.18
• 5.10.19
• 5.10.20
• 5.10.21
• 5.10.22
• 5.10.23
• 5.10.24
• 5.10.25
• 5.10.26
• 5.10.27
• 5.10.28
• 5.10.29
• 5.10.30
• 5.10.31
• 5.10.32
• 5.10.33
• 5.10.34
• 5.10.35
• 5.11
• 5.11.0
• 5.11.1
• 5.11.2
• 5.11.3
• 5.11.4
• 5.11.5
• 5.11.6
• 5.11.7
• 5.11.8
• 5.11.9
• 5.11.10
• 5.11.11
• 5.11.12
• 5.11.13
• 5.11.14
• 5.11.15
• 5.11.16
• 5.11.17
• 5.11.18
• 5.11.19
• 5.12
• 5.12.0
• 5.12.1
• 5.12.2

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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