CVE-2010-3859

Published: 29 December 2010

Multiple integer signedness errors in the TIPC implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted sendmsg call that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to the tipc_msg_build function in net/tipc/msg.c and the verify_iovec function in net/core/iovec.c.

From the Ubuntu security team

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel TIPC implementation contained multiple integer signedness errors. A local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges.

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Package	Release	Status
linux Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc1)






	Patches: Upstream: http://git.kernel.org/linus/8acfe468b0384e834a303f08ebc4953d72fb690a Upstream: http://git.kernel.org/linus/253eacc070b114c2ec1f81b067d2fed7305467b0
linux-ec2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc1)






linux-fsl-imx51 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc1)






linux-lts-backport-maverick Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc1)






linux-lts-backport-natty Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc1)






linux-mvl-dove Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc1)






linux-source-2.6.15 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc1)






linux-ti-omap4 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc1)

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Author	Note
kees	Upstream commits 8acfe468b0384e834a303f08ebc4953d72fb690a and 253eacc070b114c2ec1f81b067d2fed7305467b0

CVE-2010-3859

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