CVE-2010-3442 Information

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the snd_ctl_new function in sound/core/control.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc5-next-20100929 allow local users to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted (1) SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM_ADD or (2) SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM_REPLACE ioctl call.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5591bf07225523600450edd9e6ad258bb877b779 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42400 http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 http://secunia.com/advisories/42778 http://secunia.com/advisories/42789 http://secunia.com/advisories/42801 http://secunia.com/advisories/43291 http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.36-rc5-next-20100928.bz2 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:257 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/29/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/29/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/29/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/29/9 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0936.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43787 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3113 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0375 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638478