CVE - CVE-2010-3301

CVE-ID
CVE-2010-3301	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings
Description
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.
References
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MLIST:[oss-security] 20100916 CVE-2010-3301 kernel: IA32 System Call Entry Point Vulnerability URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/16/1 MLIST:[oss-security] 20100916 Re: CVE-2010-3301 kernel: IA32 System Call Entry Point Vulnerability URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/16/3 MISC:http://sota.gen.nz/compat2/ CONFIRM:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=36d001c70d8a0144ac1d038f6876c484849a74de CONFIRM:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=eefdca043e8391dcd719711716492063030b55ac CONFIRM:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.36-rc4-git2.log CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634449 MANDRIVA:MDVSA-2010:198 URL:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:198 MANDRIVA:MDVSA-2010:247 URL:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:247 REDHAT:RHSA-2010:0842 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html SUSE:SUSE-SR:2010:017 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html SUSE:SUSE-SA:2011:007 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html UBUNTU:USN-1041-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1041-1 SECUNIA:42758 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/42758 VUPEN:ADV-2010-3117 URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3117 VUPEN:ADV-2011-0070 URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0070 VUPEN:ADV-2011-0298 URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298
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Date Entry Created
20100913	Disclaimer: The entry creation date may reflect when the CVE-ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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