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CVE-2010-3301

Date: September 22, 2010

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

8.4

Related Resources (21)

Url: http://sota.gen.nz/compat2/

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3301

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/42758

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:198

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0070

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634449

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:247

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3117

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1041-1

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/16/1

Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eefdca043e8391dcd719711716492063030b55ac

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3301

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/16/3

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2010-3301

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html

Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=36d001c70d8a0144ac1d038f6876c484849a74de

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html

Url: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.36-rc4-git2.log

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2010-3301

Severity Score

8.4

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Privilege Management

CWE-269

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.4
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.2
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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Date: September 22, 2010

Language: C

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