CVE-2021-46943
kernel: media: staging/intel-ipu3: Fix set_fmt error handling
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · February 27, 2024
Updated · November 21, 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
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 6CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE-131 · Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size