Security Advisory

CVE-2010-4656

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-07-18 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 03:51:17
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.