CVE-2010-2962

Vulnerability Description

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.

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References

• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.hThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00004.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42745Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42758Third Party Advisory
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36Broken Link
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44067Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1041-1Third Party Advisory
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321Third Party Advisory
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0070Third Party Advisory
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298Third Party Advisory