Security Advisory

CVE-2010-2962

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2010-11-26 18:23:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 02:55:46

Assigner canonical

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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