drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x and 4.10.x before 4.10.4 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK…

Description

drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x and 4.10.x before 4.10.4 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash or memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of more than one virtual page for a DMA scatterlist.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.41% · top 65% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (5)

• 97973 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/606142af57dad981b78707234cfbd15f9f7b7125 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=606142af57dad981b78707234cfbd15f9f7b7125 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20170416 Silently (or obliviously) partially-fixed CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM bypass (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 16:27 UTC.