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Tracker / CVE-2010-2962

CVE-2010-2962

High 7.2

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.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
fedoraproject fedora
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.36
opensuse opensuse
suse linux_enterprise_desktop
suse linux_enterprise_real_time_extension
suse linux_enterprise_server

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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