CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-2962
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-11-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c in the Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) in the Intel i915 driver in the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not properly validate pointers to blocks of memory, which allows local users to write to arbitrary kernel memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via crafted use of the ioctl interface, related to (1) pwrite and (2) pread operations.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.36)
• fedoraproject fedora 13
• opensuse opensuse 11.3
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse linux enterprise real time extension 11
• suse linux enterprise server 11
• canonical ubuntu linux 9.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ce9d419dbecc292cc3e06e8b1d6d123d3fa813a4 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42758 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44067 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1041-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0070 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637688 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ce9d419dbecc292cc3e06e8b1d6d123d3fa813a4 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42758 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44067 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1041-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0070 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637688 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory