CVE-2010-2963
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 26, 2010
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 4, 2010
Description
drivers/media/video/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c in the Video4Linux (V4L) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 on 64-bit platforms does not validate the destination of a memory copy operation, which allows local users to write to arbitrary kernel memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via a VIDIOCSTUNER ioctl call on a /dev/video device, followed by a VIDIOCSMICROCODE ioctl call on this device.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- USN-1000-1vendor-advisory
- 1024710vdb-entry
- FEDORA-2010-18983vendor-advisory
- ADV-2010-3321vdb-entry
- http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2010/10/19/cve-2010-2963-v4l-compat-exploit/
- MDVSA-2010:257vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2010:057vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3e645d6b485446c54c6745c5e2cf5c528fe4deec
- 44242vdb-entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642465
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36
- 42745third-party-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2010:053vendor-advisory
- DSA-2126vendor-advisory
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