CVE-2010-3301
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 22, 2010
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 13, 2010
Description
The IA32 system call emulation functionality in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4-git2 on the x86_64 platform does not zero extend the %eax register after the 32-bit entry path to ptrace is used, which allows local users to gain privileges by triggering an out-of-bounds access to the system call table using the %rax register. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2007-4573 regression.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- [oss-security] 20100916 Re: CVE-2010-3301 kernel: IA32 System Call Entry Point Vulnerabilitymailing-list
- [oss-security] 20100916 CVE-2010-3301 kernel: IA32 System Call Entry Point Vulnerabilitymailing-list
- ADV-2010-3117vdb-entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634449
- MDVSA-2010:198vendor-advisory
- http://sota.gen.nz/compat2/
- USN-1041-1vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2011:007vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2010:0842vendor-advisory
- MDVSA-2010:247vendor-advisory
- ADV-2011-0298vdb-entry
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.36-rc4-git2.log
- 42758third-party-advisory
- SUSE-SR:2010:017vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eefdca043e8391dcd719711716492063030b55ac
- ADV-2011-0070vdb-entry
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=36d001c70d8a0144ac1d038f6876c484849a74de
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