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FKIE_CVE-2010-3859

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2010-12-29 18:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:23
Severity
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=253eacc070b114c2ec1f81b067d2fed7305467b0
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8acfe468b0384e834a303f08ebc4953d72fb690a
secalert@redhat.comhttp://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128770476511716&w=2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/42789Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/42963Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/46397Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36.2Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:029Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/22/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/22/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44354Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145247.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145248.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145262.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145263.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145264.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145265.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145352.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0168Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645867Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=253eacc070b114c2ec1f81b067d2fed7305467b0
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8acfe468b0384e834a303f08ebc4953d72fb690a
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128770476511716&w=2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/42789Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/42963Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/46397Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36.2Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:029Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/22/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/22/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44354Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145247.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145248.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145262.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145263.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145264.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145265.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145352.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0168Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645867Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
debian debian_linux 5.0

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  "sourceIdentifier": "secalert@redhat.com",
  "vulnStatus": "Modified",
  "weaknesses": [
    {
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          "value": "CWE-787"
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}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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