media: v4l2-ctrls: validate HEVC active reference counts
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 93% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: v4l2-ctrls: validate HEVC active reference counts
HEVC slice parameters are shared stateless V4L2 controls, but the common
validation path does not verify the active L0/L1 reference counts before
driver-specific code consumes them.
The original report came from Cedrus, but the active count bounds are
not Cedrus-specific. Validate them in the common HEVC slice control path
so stateless HEVC drivers get the same basic guarantees as soon as the
control is queued.
Do not reject ref_idx_l0/ref_idx_l1 entries here. Existing userspace may
use out-of-range sentinel values such as 0xff for missing references, and
some hardware can use that information for concealment. Keep this common
check limited to the active reference counts.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3068ab802fc98b121dcb451e1f7f4d338ffc7a19https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3299c3905f3fb439ebd892658b87bc76c93ae116https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a998cc1c348769262d433acb7d238c5fac4b2e0https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/afbe4bc252d90a6f8fad869b06d5430f615f22f9https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b01df98a6669d2b67d8aed816021b327fd905998https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dbaf0e0023e2f9332c5164822def7f80b7d2c5ef