Bug 470426 (CVE-2008-3496) - CVE-2008-3496 kernel: uvcvideo: Fix a buffer overflow in format descriptor parsing
Summary: CVE-2008-3496 kernel: uvcvideo: Fix a buffer overflow in format descriptor pa...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2008-3496
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 470427
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-11-07 05:21 UTC by Eugene Teo (Security Response)
Modified: 2021-11-12 19:51 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-12-21 17:51:38 UTC
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Proposed upstream patch (1.12 KB, patch)
2008-11-07 05:24 UTC, Eugene Teo (Security Response) 		no flags Details | Diff
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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
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