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Tracker / CVE-2010-4656

CVE-2010-4656

High 7.8

The iowarrior_write function in drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c in the Linux kernel before 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.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.37

Analysis

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