The i915 driver in (1) drivers/char/drm/i915_dma.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.24 on Debian GNU/Linux and (2) sys/dev/pci/drm/i915_drv.c in OpenBSD does not restrict the DRM_I915_HWS_ADDR ioctl to the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) master, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted ioctl call, related to absence of the DRM_MASTER and DRM_ROOT_ONLY flags in the ioctl's configuration.
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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3831 cve-icon
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https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3831 cve-icon
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History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2008-10-20T17:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:53:00.385Z

Reserved: 2008-08-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-3831

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-10-20T17:59:26.117

Modified: 2023-02-13T02:19:27.733

Link: CVE-2008-3831

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-3831 - Bugzilla