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CVE-2010-3081: Buffer Overflow

First published: Thu Sep 16 2010(Updated: )

Description of problem: A vulnerability in the 32-bit compatibility layer for 64-bit systems was reported. It is caused by insecure allocation of user space memory when translating system call inputs to 64-bit. A stack pointer underflow can occur when using the "compat_alloc_user_space" method with an arbitrary length input. Reference: <a href="http://sota.gen.nz/compat1/">http://sota.gen.nz/compat1/</a> Upstream commit: <a href="http://git.kernel.org/linus/c41d68a513c71e35a14f66d71782d27a79a81ea6">http://git.kernel.org/linus/c41d68a513c71e35a14f66d71782d27a79a81ea6</a> Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Ben Hawkes for reporting this issue.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
debian/linux-2.6
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.36-rc2
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.36-rc1
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.36-rc3
Linux Linux kernel<=2.6.35.4
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.36
VMware ESX=4.1
VMware ESX=4.0
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server=11-sp1
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop=11-sp1

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