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CVE Reference: CVE-2010-2962 |
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2010-2962 |
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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. |
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CVE Status: Candidate |
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References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1041-1 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA42745 Secunia Advisory: SA42758 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html FEDORA http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html CONFIRM http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ce9d419dbecc292cc3e06e8b1d6d123d3fa813a4 BID 44067 |
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