CVE-2010-3301 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2010-3301?

CVE-2010-3301 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 22 Sep 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The IA32 system call emulation functionality in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4-git2 on the x86_64 platform does not zero extend the %eax register after the 32-bit entry path to ptrace is used, which allows local users to gain privileges by triggering an out-of-bounds access to the system call table using the %rax register. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2007-4573 regression.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-3301?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linux kernel, Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension.

How do I fix CVE-2010-3301?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2010-3301 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2010-3301 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-79mw-6jhw-7997.