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Tracker / CVE-2010-2226

CVE-2010-2226

Low 2.1

The xfs_swapext function in fs/xfs/xfs_dfrag.c in the Linux kernel before 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.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.35
suse linux_enterprise_desktop
suse linux_enterprise_server
suse linux_enterprise_software_development_kit

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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