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Tracker / CVE-2010-2963

CVE-2010-2963

Medium 6.2

drivers/media/video/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c in the Video4Linux (V4L) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 on 64-bit platforms does not validate the destination of a memory copy operation, which allows local users to write to arbitrary kernel memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via a VIDIOCSTUNER ioctl call on a /dev/video device, followed by a VIDIOCSMICROCODE ioctl call on this device.

Affected products and versions

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

Analysis

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