Vulnerability CVE-2007-6761
Published: 2017-04-24

Description:
drivers/media/video/videobuf-vmalloc.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.24 does not initialize videobuf_mapping data structures, which allows local users to trigger an incorrect count value and videobuf leak via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-5321.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel 

 References:
http://www.linuxgrill.com/anonymous/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98001
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827340
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0b29669c065f60501e7289e1950fa2a618962358
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0b29669c065f60501e7289e1950fa2a618962358
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