CVE-2011-0521
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Feb 2, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 20, 2011
Description
The dvb_ca_ioctl function in drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110_ca.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38-rc2 does not check the sign of a certain integer field, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a negative value.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 45986vdb-entry
- 1025195vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20110125 Linux kernel av7110 negative array offsetmailing-list
- 20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Consolemailing-list
- 46397third-party-advisory
- kernel-av7110ca-privilege-escalation(64988)vdb-entry
- 43009third-party-advisory
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.38-rc2
- [oss-security] 20110125 Re: Linux kernel av7110 negative array offsetmailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cb26a24ee9706473f31d34cc259f4dcf45cd0644
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