CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4656
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-07-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
The iowarrior_write function in drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not properly allocate memory, which might allow local users to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, and consequently cause a denial of service or gain privileges, via a long report.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.37)
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3ed780117dbe5acb64280d218f0347f238dafed0 git.kernel.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/24/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46069 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1146-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672420 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3ed780117dbe5acb64280d218f0347f238dafed0 git.kernel.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/24/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46069 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1146-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672420 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory