7.3 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
7.2 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
8.6%
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.
git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ce9d419dbecc292cc3e06e8b1d6d123d3fa813a4
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00004.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html
secunia.com/advisories/42745
secunia.com/advisories/42758
www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html
www.securityfocus.com/bid/44067
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1041-1
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0070
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637688
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