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CVE-2010-2962
Published: Nov 26, 2010
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
FEDORA-2010-18983
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637688
x_refsource_CONFIRM
USN-1041-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
SUSE-SA:2011:007
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
ADV-2010-3321
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
RHSA-2010:0842
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
ADV-2011-0298
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
RHSA-2010:0958
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
SUSE-SA:2010:050
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
SUSE-SA:2010:051
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
42758
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36
x_refsource_CONFIRM
44067
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
42745
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
ADV-2011-0070
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
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