CVE-2010-4527
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jan 13, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 9, 2010
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20101231 Re: CVE request: kernel: buffer overflow in OSS load_mixer_volumesmailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667615
- http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/cve-2010-4527-linux-kernel-oss-sound-card-driver-buffer-overflow/
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37
- 45629vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20101230 CVE request: kernel: buffer overflow in OSS load_mixer_volumesmailing-list
- 42765third-party-advisory
- ADV-2011-0375vdb-entry
- SUSE-SA:2011:008vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d81a12bc29ae4038770e05dce4ab7f26fd5880fb
- 43291third-party-advisory
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