First published: Mon Sep 27 2010(Updated: )
Description of problem: Kees found a flaw in the i915 GEM ioctl interface that does not check destination addresses during memory copies, allowing arbitrary memory writes into the kernel. The flaws are in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c in i915_gem_pread_ioctl() and i915_gem_pwrite_ioctl(), which do no access_ok() checks on args->data_ptr. (Actually, there is one check path: i915_gem_gtt_pwrite_fast() does the check, but none of the other helpers do.). Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Kees Cook for reporting this issue.
Credit: security@ubuntu.com security@ubuntu.com security@ubuntu.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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debian/linux-2.6 | ||
Linux Linux kernel | <2.6.36 | |
Fedoraproject Fedora | =13 | |
openSUSE openSUSE | =11.3 | |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop | =11-sp1 | |
Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension | =11-sp1 | |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | =11-sp1 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =9.10 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =10.04 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =10.10 |
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