6.2
CVSSv2

CVE-2010-4157

Published: 10/12/2010 Updated: 13/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 1.9
VMScore: 552
Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Integer overflow in the ioc_general function in drivers/scsi/gdth.c in the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.36.1 on 64-bit platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large argument in an ioctl call.

Vulnerability Trend

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linux linux kernel

fedoraproject fedora 13

suse linux enterprise server 10

suse linux enterprise desktop 11

suse linux enterprise server 11

suse linux enterprise server 9

opensuse opensuse 11.2

opensuse opensuse 11.3

suse linux enterprise desktop 10

suse linux enterprise software development kit 10

suse linux enterprise real time extension 11

Vendor Advisories

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly implement exception fixup A local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service (CVE-2010-3086) ...
Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...
An attacker could send crafted input to the kernel and cause it to crash ...
Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...
Multiple security flaws in Linux kernel ...

Exploits

Ubuntu Security Notice 1202-1 - Dan Rosenberg discovered that several network ioctls did not clear kernel memory correctly A local user could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy Brad Spengler discovered that stack memory for new a process was not correctly calculated A local attacker could exploit this to crash ...

References

CWE-190http://ns3.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg47361.htmlhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/3http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44648http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/5https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651147http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/4http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/10/12http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36.1http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/1http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/42745http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00001.htmlhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012http://secunia.com/advisories/42801http://secunia.com/advisories/42778http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.htmlhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0124http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00004.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/42789http://secunia.com/advisories/42932http://secunia.com/advisories/42963http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.htmlhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0168http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/43291http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.htmlhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0375http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298http://secunia.com/advisories/46397http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threadedhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f63ae56e4e97fb12053590e41a4fa59e7daa74a4https://nvd.nist.govhttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/105078/Ubuntu-Security-Notice-USN-1202-1.htmlhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/1072-1/