[PATCH v2] media: uvcvideo: Fix integer overflow in frame buffer size calculation

From: Noam Ben Shimon

Date: Wed Aug 12 2026 - 06:35:21 EST


In the function uvc_parse_frame(), it recomputes
dwMaxVideoFrameBufferSize for uncompressed formats. This helps working
around devices that report it wrong:

frame->dwMaxVideoFrameBufferSize = format->bpp * frame->wWidth
* frame->wHeight / 8;

These three arguments originate from the device's own descriptors, and
therefore can be decided by it. bpp is a u8 and wWidth and wHeight are
u16. The expression is evaluated in int, and the maximum value is
255 * 65535 * 65535 (which is roughly 510 times INT_MAX).
A device that declares large dimensions therefore overflows a signed
int here.
The kernel is built using -fno-strict-overflow, so this wraps rather
than being miscompiled, but the wrapped value (which is often negative)
is then divided by 8 and stored in a u32 used as a size.

Two examples for this (using legal field values):

- 32 bpp, 16384x4096: the product is exactly 2^31 and wraps to
INT_MIN. After division and conversion to u32 the field has the
value 4026531840 rather than 268435456.

- 16 bpp, 16384x16384: the product is exactly 2^32 and wraps to 0.
The field holds 0, rather than the correct 536870912.

I don't think memory corruption is a consequence of this. The value
reaches uvc_queue_setup() as the vb2 buffer size, and every copy on the
decode path is bounded by buf->length, which uvc_buffer_prepare() gets
from vb2_plane_size() rather than this field. What a wrapped value does
instead is make the driver describe the stream inconsistently.
For an uncompressed format uvc_fixup_video_ctrl() copies it into
ctrl->dwMaxVideoFrameSize unconditionally, and that becomes the
sizeimage reported by VIDIOC_G_FMT. This is while width, height and
bytesperline continue to describe the full frame.
This also makes uvc_video_validate_buffer() mark error on all frames,
because it is comparing bytesused against the same number.

Compute the size in 64-bit, and if the result does not fit in the u32
field then reject the frame descriptor. An uncompressed frame this
large is probably not a real device and rejection is consistent with
the other checks over malformed-descriptors in this function.

Fixes: c0efd232929c ("V4L/DVB (8145a): USB Video Class driver")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Noam Ben Shimon <noambs2999@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- Used a shift instead of division (Ricardo Ribalda) (Thanks!)
- Add Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ricardo Ribalda)

Compile-tested using W=1 and no warnings.

Tested with a UVC gadget over dummy_hcd with WSL. A frame descriptor
declaring 32 bpp at 40000x40000 (computed size = 6400000000, which is
above U32_MAX) is then rejected as expected, and the streaming interface
is not registered:

uvcvideo 1-1:1.0: Found format YUYV little-endian (0x56595559)
uvcvideo 1-1:1.0: device 2 videostreaming interface 1 FRAME 1: computed buffer size overflows
uvcvideo 1-1:1.0: No streaming interface found for terminal 32771.

I was working on a certain device that had a variation of the Linux
kernel. During my work, I had searched for memory mismanagement and
misallocation in media drivers. At some point I stumbled into the
uvc_driver.c and found a flaw that is not a vulnerability, but still a
flaw. I figured that it was worth letting you know rather than shrug it
off.

drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
index e289cc71ba98..29e23f94751c 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
@@ -296,9 +296,21 @@ static int uvc_parse_frame(struct uvc_device *dev,
* information. For uncompressed formats this can be fixed by computing
* the value from the frame size.
*/
- if (!(format->flags & UVC_FMT_FLAG_COMPRESSED))
- frame->dwMaxVideoFrameBufferSize = format->bpp * frame->wWidth
- * frame->wHeight / 8;
+ if (!(format->flags & UVC_FMT_FLAG_COMPRESSED)) {
+ u64 bufsize;
+
+ bufsize = ((u64)format->bpp * frame->wWidth * frame->wHeight) >> 3;
+ if (bufsize > U32_MAX) {
+ uvc_dbg(dev, DESCR,
+ "device %d videostreaming interface %d FRAME %u: computed buffer size overflows\n",
+ dev->udev->devnum,
+ alts->desc.bInterfaceNumber,
+ frame->bFrameIndex);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ frame->dwMaxVideoFrameBufferSize = bufsize;
+ }

/*
* Clamp the default frame interval to the boundaries. A zero

base-commit: f9a2394a23482bfd330911e9c8295b71724feacd
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2.34.1