CVE-2011-1016
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2011-02-28 | |
| Impact: | Important | What is this? |
Description
The Radeon GPU drivers in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38-rc5 do not properly validate data related to the AA resolve registers, which allows local users to write to arbitrary memory locations associated with (1) Video RAM (aka VRAM) or (2) the Graphics Translation Table (GTT) via crafted values.
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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 Linux version 5 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2011-2015 | 2011-05-11 |
| Oracle Linux version 5 (ofa-2.6.32-100.28.15.el5) | ELSA-2011-2015 | 2011-05-11 |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel) | ELSA-2011-0498 | 2011-05-10 |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2011-2015 | 2011-05-11 |
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