drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c in the Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) in the Intel i915 driver in the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not properly validate pointers to blocks of memory, which allows local users to write to arbitrary kernel memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via crafted use of the ioctl interface, related to (1) pwrite and (2) pread operations.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: canonical
Published: 2010-11-26T18:23:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T02:55:46.323Z
Reserved: 2010-08-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2010-2962
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2010-11-26T19:00:06.500
Modified: 2024-11-21T01:17:44.560
Link: CVE-2010-2962
Redhat