CVE-2010-4527

Published: 13 January 2011

The load_mixer_volumes function in sound/oss/soundcard.c in the OSS sound subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 incorrectly expects that a certain name field ends with a '\0' character, which allows local users to conduct buffer overflow attacks and gain privileges, or possibly obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, via a SOUND_MIXER_SETLEVELS ioctl call.

From the Ubuntu security team

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the OSS subsystem did not handle name termination correctly. A local attacker could exploit this crash the system or gain root privileges.

Priority

Status

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







	Patches: Upstream: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d81a12bc29ae4038770e05dce4ab7f26fd5880fb
linux-ec2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37)







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







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







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







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







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







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

Notes

Author	Note
jdstrand	in sound system. Dapper desktop is EOL so ignoring

References

Bugs

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667615

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