PT-2010-5275

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.36-rc5 Description The issue concerns the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel, which does not properly initialize certain structure members. This allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information...

PT-2010-5278

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.36-rc8 Description The issue is related to the improper initialization of a structure member in the ivtvfb ioctl function, which can be exploited by local users to obtain potentially sensitive information fro...

CVE-2010-4075

The uartgetcount function in drivers/serial/serialcore.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc1 does not properly initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a TIOCGICOUNT ioctl call...

CVE-2010-4078

The sisfbioctl function in drivers/video/sis/sismain.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc6 does not properly initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an FBIOGETVBLANK ioctl call...

PT-2010-5277

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.36.1 Description The issue is related to the ntty ioctl tiocgicount function in the Linux kernel, which does not properly initialize a certain structure member. This allows local users to obtain potentially...

PT-2010-5276

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.36.1 Description The issue is related to the rs ioctl function in the Linux kernel, which does not properly initialize a certain structure member. This allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive...

CVE-2010-2962

drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915gem.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...

Design/Logic Flaw

drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915gem.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...

Memory corruption

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...

CVE-2010-3698

The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not properly reload the FS and GS segment registers, which allows host OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash via a KVMRUN ioctl call in conjunction with a modified Local Descriptor Table LDT...

CVE-2010-2963

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...

CVE-2010-2962

drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915gem.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...

CVE-2010-2962

drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915gem.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...

CVE-2010-2963: Improper Input Validation

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...

CVE-2010-2962

drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915gem.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...

CVE-2010-3698: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not properly reload the FS and GS segment registers, which allows host OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash via a KVMRUN ioctl call in conjunction with a modified Local Descriptor Table LDT...

CVE-2010-2962: Improper Input Validation

drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915gem.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...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2010:0842)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2010:0842 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues: Missi...

kernel: gdth: Prevent negative offsets in ioctl

Array index error in the gdthreadevent function in drivers/scsi/gdth.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc8 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges via a negative event index in an IOCTL request...

kernel: wireless: fix 64K kernel heap content leak via ioctl

The cfg80211wextgiwessid function in net/wireless/wext-compat.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc3-next-20100831 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to leverage an off-by-one error in the ioctlstandardiwpoint function in net/wireless/wext-core.c, an...