Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size Affecting kernel-rt-trace-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELRTTRACEDEVEL-6302286
  • published28 Feb 2024
  • disclosed27 Feb 2024

Introduced: 27 Feb 2024

CVE-2021-46943  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-131  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 kernel-rt-trace-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-trace-devel package and not the kernel-rt-trace-devel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

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