CVE-2010-4163

Published: 03 January 2011

The blk_rq_map_user_iov function in block/blk-map.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via a zero-length I/O request in a device ioctl to a SCSI device.

From the Ubuntu security team

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the SCSI subsystem did not correctly validate iov segments. A local attacker with access to a SCSI device could send specially crafted requests to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
linux Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc7)







	Patches: Upstream: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9284bcf4e335e5f18a8bc7b26461c33ab60d0689 Upstream: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5478755616ae2ef1ce144dded589b62b2a50d575
linux-ec2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc7)







linux-fsl-imx51 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc7)







linux-lts-backport-maverick Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc7)







linux-lts-backport-natty Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc7)







linux-mvl-dove Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc7)







linux-source-2.6.15 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc7)







linux-ti-omap4 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc7)

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