CVE-2010-2962 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2010-2962?

CVE-2010-2962 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 26 Nov 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c in the Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) in the Intel i915 driver in the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not properly validate pointers to blocks of memory, which allows local users to write to arbitrary kernel memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via crafted use of the ioctl interface, related to (1) pwrite and (2) pread operations.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-2962?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Linux kernel, Opensuse Opensuse, Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop, Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2010-2962?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2010-2962 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-2962 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-x4r7-7jr8-f7fv.