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CVE-2007-6761

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-24 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

drivers/media/video/videobuf-vmalloc.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.24 does not initialize videobuf_mapping data structures, which allows local users to trigger an incorrect count value and videobuf leak via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-5321.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 2.6.23

References

• http://www.linuxgrill.com/anonymous/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98001
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827340
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0b29669c065f60501e7289e1950fa2a618962358
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0b29669c065f60501e7289e1950fa2a618962358
• http://www.linuxgrill.com/anonymous/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98001
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827340
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0b29669c065f60501e7289e1950fa2a618962358
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0b29669c065f60501e7289e1950fa2a618962358

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