CVE-2019-20806

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in tw5864_handle_frame function in drivers/media/pci/tw5864/tw5864-video.c in the TW5864 Series Video media driver. The pointer 'vb' is assigned, but not validated before its use, and can lead to a denial of service. This flaw allows a local attacker with special user or root privileges to crash the system or leak internal kernel information.

There was not a shipped kernel version that was seen to be affected by this problem. These files are not built into the source code.

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