Published: 03/09/2010 Updated: 13/02/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 187

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The xfs_swapext function in fs/xfs/xfs_dfrag.c in the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.35 does not properly check the file descriptors passed to the SWAPEXT ioctl, which allows local users to leverage write access and obtain read access by swapping one file into another file.

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Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugsare now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as havingimportant secur ...

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2009-4895 Kyle Bader reported an issue in the tty subsystem that allows local users to create a denial of service (NULL pointe ...

Multiple kernel flaws ...

Multiple security issues fixed ...

Multiple kernel flaws ...

CWE-200 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605158 http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20100616.130710.301704aa.en.html http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20100616.135735.40f53a32.en.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40920 http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127677135609357&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127687486331790&w=2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0610.html http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2094 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:198 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00004.html http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 http://secunia.com/advisories/43315 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516397/100/0/threaded http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1817176a86352f65210139d4c794ad2d19fc6b63 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0610 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/1083-1/https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-2094

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