CVE-2010-2963 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2010-2963?

CVE-2010-2963 is a medium-severity memory corruption 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/media/video/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c in the Video4Linux (V4L) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 on 64-bit platforms does not validate the destination of a memory copy operation, which allows local users to write to arbitrary kernel memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via a VIDIOCSTUNER ioctl call on a /dev/video device, followed by a VIDIOCSMICROCODE ioctl call on this device.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-2963?

It affects 7 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2010-2963?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2010-2963 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2010-2963 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7276-wmh7-g227.