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CVE-2010-5329

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% 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-399

Description

The video_usercopy function in drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 relies on the count value of a v4l2_ext_controls data structure to determine a kmalloc size, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large value.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 2.6.38.8

References

• http://linuxtv.org/irc/v4l/index.php?date=2010-07-29
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/08/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97986
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fc0a80798576f80ca10b3f6c9c7097f12fd1d64e
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fc0a80798576f80ca10b3f6c9c7097f12fd1d64e
• http://linuxtv.org/irc/v4l/index.php?date=2010-07-29
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/08/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97986
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fc0a80798576f80ca10b3f6c9c7097f12fd1d64e
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fc0a80798576f80ca10b3f6c9c7097f12fd1d64e

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