CVE-2010-3859

CVE Details

Release Date:	2010-12-29
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

Multiple integer signedness errors in the TIPC implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted sendmsg call that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to the tipc_msg_build function in net/tipc/msg.c and the verify_iovec function in net/core/iovec.c.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	6.9
Vector String:	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (kernel)	ELSA-2011-0162	2011-01-18
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ocfs2-2.6.9-89.35.1.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2011-0162	2011-01-18
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (oracleasm-2.6.9-89.35.1.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2011-0162	2011-01-18
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2011-0004	2011-01-04
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-194.32.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2011-0004	2011-01-04
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-194.32.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2011-0004	2011-01-04