CVE-2023-53437 (GCVE-0-2023-53437)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-18 16:04 – Updated: 2026-01-14 19:23
VLAI?
Title
media: uvcvideo: Handle cameras with invalid descriptors
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: uvcvideo: Handle cameras with invalid descriptors If the source entity does not contain any pads, do not create a link.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 6d30cf81ee3c0368175f76c03120af5d81e0c639 , < c8f4a424af5879baefb0fb8a8a09b09ea1779483 (git)
Affected: b4759a52b8940dbbfc565c918a3893ecaeb5b134 , < 2914259fcea23971c6fed8b2618d3a729a78c365 (git)
Affected: aa1362606059ade437a901fe7c33b24901683c14 , < 4e4e6ca62e77539d4df8d13137e2683b10baddd9 (git)
Affected: cc52ed14f5ca849ef81e6a6bc4beea6dc43514d0 , < d8aa2e1ae6426d7cbddf1735aed1a63ddf0e6909 (git)
Affected: 7532dad6634031d083df7af606fac655b8d08b5c , < 31a8d11d28b57656cebfbd4c0b8b76f6ad5b017d (git)
Affected: 7532dad6634031d083df7af606fac655b8d08b5c , < 11196ee3916e50a5da3c1e6ecda19a02dca14ba3 (git)
Affected: 7532dad6634031d083df7af606fac655b8d08b5c , < 1a76cfc388cf105d3e04ac592670a52a3864b1ba (git)
Affected: 7532dad6634031d083df7af606fac655b8d08b5c , < 41ddb251c68ac75c101d3a50a68c4629c9055e4c (git)
Affected: 9bf5da0d0fcca080b2254a30fa4b8ed47a96a0d0 (git)
Affected: d920b0940a0b2c0671e5a69ed3b3fe3a3a50b970 (git)
Affected: b950d6d8f4d7c78c9e5d08b61a66387c0b61f924 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.308 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.276 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.235 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.173 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.100 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.18 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.5 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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