How severe is CVE-2010-5321?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of MEDIUM with a CVSS score of 4.3 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2010-5321?

This is classified as CWE-772, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2010-5321 - MEDIUM Severity | CVSS 4.3

Vulnerability Description

Memory leak in drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.c in the videobuf subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.x through 4.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging /dev/video access for a series of mmap calls that require new allocations, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-6761. NOTE: as of 2016-06-18, this affects only 11 drivers that have not been updated to use videobuf2 instead of videobuf.

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