CVE-2010-3848 Information

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the econet_sendmsg function in net/econet/af_econet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 when an econet address is configured allows local users to gain privileges by providing a large number of iovec structures.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a27e13d370415add3487949c60810e36069a23a6 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00007.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/30/1 http://secunia.com/advisories/43056 http://secunia.com/advisories/43291 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36.2 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:257 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1023-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0213 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0375 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644156