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CVE-2010-2962

CVSS v2.0 7.2 (High)
72% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (11th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 7
Advisories 25
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-20
Improper Input Validation
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Canonical Ltd.
Published Date
2010-11-26 19:00:06
(14 years ago)
Updated Date
2023-11-07 02:05:45
(10 months ago)

Affected Products

Canonical

Fedoraproject

Linux

Opensuse

Suse

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel prior 2.6.36 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel < 2.6.36

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Fedoraproject Fedora 13 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

Configuration #3

    CPE23 From Up To
  Opensuse 11.3 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.3
  Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:11:sp1
  Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension 11 SP1 cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_real_time_extension:11:sp1
  Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:sp1

Configuration #4

    CPE23 From Up To
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 9.10 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:-
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.10 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10