CVE-2021-46943

CVE-2021-46943 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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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