CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-39714

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's USB TV driver (usbtv), the resolution is not locked during streaming. Changing the TV standard (e.g., NTSC to PAL) while playing can cause a video buffer overflow and system crash.

Risk Assessment

A local attacker can trigger a kernel panic by changing the TV standard during streaming, leading to a denial of service (DoS).

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that locks resolution during streaming in the usbtv driver.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: usbtv: Lock resolution while streaming When an program is streaming (ffplay) and another program (qv4l2) changes the TV standard from NTSC to PAL, the kernel crashes due to trying to copy to unmapped memory. Changing from NTSC to PAL increases the resolution in the usbtv struct, but the video plane buffer isn't adjusted, so it overflows. [hverkuil: call vb2_is_busy instead of vb2_is_streaming]

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS