CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-3859

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2010-12-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-12-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

Multiple integer signedness errors in the TIPC implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted sendmsg call that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to the tipc_msg_build function in net/tipc/msg.c and the verify_iovec function in net/core/iovec.c.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.36.2) • debian debian linux 5.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References