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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2021-46943

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

Products
linux
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
5.10.38-1
CVEs
CVE-2021-46943
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 01:44 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-46943

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Feb 2024, 19:04 UTC

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

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-46943

linux

Fixed versions: 5.10.38-1

linux

Fixed versions: 5.10.38-1

linux

Fixed versions: 5.10.38-1

Complete source record
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