vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-46943: kernel: media: staging/intel-ipu3: Fix set_fmt error handling

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 27, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

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

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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