A memory leak in the cx23888_ir_probe() function in...
High severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 29, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Nov 18, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Last updated
Jan 29, 2023
A memory leak in the cx23888_ir_probe() function in drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23888-ir.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering kfifo_alloc() failures, aka CID-a7b2df76b42b.
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