# CVE-2021-46943: media: staging/intel-ipu3: Fix set\_fmt error handling

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-02-27 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.2

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: staging/intel-ipu3: Fix set_fmt error handling If there in an error during a set_fmt, do not overwrite the previous sizes with the invalid config. Without this patch, v4l2-compliance ends up allocating 4GiB of RAM and causing the following OOPs [ 38.662975] ipu3-imgu 0000:00:05.0: swiotlb buffer is full (sz: 4096 bytes) [ 38.662980] DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 4096 bytes at device 0000:00:05.0 [ 38.663010] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a03fb1e8a110658215a4cefc3e2ad53279e496a6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6b81b897f6f9445d57f8d47c4e060ec21556137
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34892ea938387d83ffcfb7775ec55f0f80767916
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fb617e37a39db0a3eca4489431359d0bdf3b9bc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad91849996f9dd79741a961fd03585a683b08356

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