CVE-2010-4656 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2010-4656?

CVE-2010-4656 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 18 Jul 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The iowarrior_write function in drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not properly allocate memory, which might allow local users to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, and consequently cause a denial of service or gain privileges, via a long report.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4656?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4656?

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-2010-4656 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4656 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-5jgm-4h75-c4h8.