Bug 2396504 (CVE-2023-53437)

Summary: CVE-2023-53437 kernel: media: uvcvideo: Handle cameras with invalid descriptors
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-18 17:02:06 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: uvcvideo: Handle cameras with invalid descriptors

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