Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120571
I got some more information on the #v4l IRC channel and decided to
report the issue upstream while I was at it.
which driver are you using ?
I guess uvcvideo based on the lsmod output.
uvcvideo uses videobuf2
I quickly
Control: found -1 4.6.2-1
[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> If I understand the issue correctly, a user with access to /dev/video
> can cause the kernel to leak memory and eventually run out of memory by
> doing repeated calls to mmap(). In other words, users with video group
> membership can bring down
Package: src:linux
Version: 3.2.78-1
Severity: minor
Tags: security
In 2010 an issue with the linux kernel implementation of v4l was
discovered and reported to RedHat as
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620629 >. It was
assigned a CVE last year in
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