Bug 470426 (CVE-2008-3496)

Summary: CVE-2008-3496 kernel: uvcvideo: Fix a buffer overflow in format descriptor parsing
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Eugene Teo (Security Response) <eteo>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: anton, fenlason, lwang
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Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2008-11-07 05:21:08 UTC 
Description of problem:
There's a buffer overflow in the format descriptor parsing in the uvcvideo driver.

Proposed upstream patch:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=233548a2fd934a0220db8b1521c0bc88c82e5e53
Comment 1 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2008-11-07 05:24:10 UTC 
Created attachment 322814 [details]
Proposed upstream patch