642
VMScore

CVE-2010-4656

Published: 18/07/2011 Updated: 13/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 642
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

The iowarrior_write function in drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c in the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.37 does not properly allocate memory, which might allow local users to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, and consequently cause a denial of service or gain privileges, via a long report.

Vulnerability Trend

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linux linux kernel

canonical ubuntu linux 8.04

Vendor Advisories

Multiple kernel vulnerabilities have been fixed ...
Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...
An attacker could send crafted input to the kernel and cause it to crash ...
Multiple kernel vulnerabilities have been fixed ...
Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...
Multiple flaws fixed in the 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 ...