Vigil@nce - Linux kernel: NULL pointer dereference via drivers/media/usb/gspca/ov519.c
May 2020 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES,
Ubuntu.
Severity: 1/4.
Consequences: denial of service on server.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 01/05/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a NULL pointer to be dereferenced via
drivers/media/usb/gspca/ov519.c of the Linux kernel, in order to
trigger a denial of service.
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