CVE-2010-1446

Severity

19%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

48%

arch/powerpc/mm/fsl_booke_mmu.c in KGDB in the Linux kernel 2.6.30 and other versions before 2.6.33, when running on PowerPC, does not properly perform a security check for access to a kernel page, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory, related to Fsl booke.

arch/powerpc/mm/fsl_booke_mmu.c in KGDB in the Linux kernel 2.6.30 and other versions before 2.6.33, when running on PowerPC, does not properly perform a security check for access to a kernel page, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory, related to Fsl booke.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 1.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

Linux Kernel

First reported 14 years ago

2010-05-21 17:30:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-17 01:32:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 2.6.30

2.6.30

Linux Kernel 2.6.30.1

2.6.30.1

Linux Kernel 2.6.30.2

2.6.30.2

Linux Kernel 2.6.30.3

2.6.30.3

Linux Kernel 2.6.30.4

2.6.30.4

Linux Kernel 2.6.30.5

2.6.30.5

Linux Kernel 2.6.30.6

2.6.30.6

Linux Kernel 2.6.30.7

2.6.30.7

Linux Kernel 2.6.30.8

2.6.30.8

Linux Kernel 2.6.30.9

2.6.30.9

Linux Kernel 2.6.30.10

2.6.30.10

Linux Kernel 2.6.31

2.6.31

Linux Kernel 2.6.31.1

2.6.31.1

Linux Kernel 2.6.31.2

2.6.31.2

Linux Kernel 2.6.31.3

2.6.31.3

Linux Kernel 2.6.31.4

2.6.31.4

Linux Kernel 2.6.31.5

2.6.31.5

Linux Kernel 2.6.31.6

2.6.31.6

Linux Kernel 2.6.31.7

2.6.31.7

Linux Kernel 2.6.31.8

2.6.31.8

Linux Kernel 2.6.31.9

2.6.31.9

Linux Kernel 2.6.31.10

2.6.31.10

Linux Kernel 2.6.31.11

2.6.31.11

Linux Kernel 2.6.31.12

2.6.31.12

Linux Kernel 2.6.31.13

2.6.31.13

Linux Kernel 2.6.32

2.6.32

Linux Kernel 2.6.32.1

2.6.32.1

Linux Kernel 2.6.32.2

2.6.32.2

Linux Kernel 2.6.32.3

2.6.32.3

Linux Kernel 2.6.32.4

2.6.32.4

Linux Kernel 2.6.32.5

2.6.32.5

Linux Kernel 2.6.32.6

2.6.32.6

Linux Kernel 2.6.32.7

2.6.32.7

Linux Kernel 2.6.32.8

2.6.32.8

Linux Kernel 2.6.32.9

2.6.32.9

Linux Kernel 2.6.32.10

2.6.32.10

Linux Kernel 2.6.32.11

2.6.32.11

Linux Kernel 2.6.32.12

2.6.32.12

Linux Kernel 2.6.32.13

2.6.32.13

References

SUSE-SA:2010:031

[linux-kernel] 20100510 [071/117] kgdb: dont needlessly skip PAGE_USER test for Fsl booke

Patch

39830

40645

DSA-2053

[oss-security] 20100429 CVE request - Linux Kernel KGDB/ppc issue

[oss-security] 20100429 Re: CVE request - Linux Kernel KGDB/ppc issue

[oss-security] 20100430 Re: CVE request - Linux Kernel KGDB/ppc issue

ADV-2010-1857

kernel-kgdb-memory-overwrite(58840)

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