CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-2963
6.2 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-11-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.2 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
drivers/media/video/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c in the Video4Linux (V4L) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 on 64-bit platforms does not validate the destination of a memory copy operation, which allows local users to write to arbitrary kernel memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via a VIDIOCSTUNER ioctl call on a /dev/video device, followed by a VIDIOCSMICROCODE ioctl call on this device.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.36)
• fedoraproject fedora 13
• opensuse opensuse 11.2
• opensuse opensuse 11.3
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse linux enterprise server 11
• debian debian linux 5.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.06
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 9.04
• 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=3e645d6b485446c54c6745c5e2cf5c528fe4deec 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/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:257 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2010/10/19/cve-2010-2963-v4l-compat-exploit/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44242 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024710 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642465 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3e645d6b485446c54c6745c5e2cf5c528fe4deec 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/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:257 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2010/10/19/cve-2010-2963-v4l-compat-exploit/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44242 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024710 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642465 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory