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CVE-2010-4527

Published: Jan 13, 2011

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

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Description

The load_mixer_volumes function in sound/oss/soundcard.c in the OSS sound subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 incorrectly expects that a certain name field ends with a '\0' character, which allows local users to conduct buffer overflow attacks and gain privileges, or possibly obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, via a SOUND_MIXER_SETLEVELS ioctl call.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

[oss-security] 20101231 Re: CVE request: kernel: buffer overflow in OSS load_mixer_volumes

mailing-list

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667615

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http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/cve-2010-4527-linux-kernel-oss-sound-card-driver-buffer-overflow/

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37

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vdb-entry

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[oss-security] 20101230 CVE request: kernel: buffer overflow in OSS load_mixer_volumes

mailing-list

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third-party-advisory

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vdb-entry

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SUSE-SA:2011:008

vendor-advisory

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d81a12bc29ae4038770e05dce4ab7f26fd5880fb

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third-party-advisory

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