Vulnerability CVE-2010-3859

Vulnerability CVE-2010-3859

Published: 2010-12-29 Modified: 2012-02-13

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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	Topic	Author	Date
Med.	linux kernel 2.6.36.1 TIPC security issues	Dan Rosenberg	30.12.2010

Type:

CWE-189

(Numeric Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
6.9/10	10/10	3.4/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Local	Medium	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Complete	Complete	Complete

Affected software
Linux -> Kernel
Linux -> Linux kernel

References:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=253eacc070b114c2ec1f81b067d2fed7305467b0

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8acfe468b0384e834a303f08ebc4953d72fb690a

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128770476511716&w=2

http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36.2

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:029

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/22/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/22/5

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44354

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145247.html

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145248.html

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145262.html

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145263.html

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145264.html

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145265.html

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145352.html

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0168

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645867

Vulnerability CVE-2010-3859

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Med.

linux kernel 2.6.36.1 TIPC security issues

CWE-189

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

6.9/10

10/10

3.4/10

Local

Medium

No required

Complete

Complete

Complete

Affected software

References: