CVE-2010-4157 Information

Description

Integer overflow in the ioc_general function in drivers/scsi/gdth.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.1 on 64-bit platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large argument in an ioctl call.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f63ae56e4e97fb12053590e41a4fa59e7daa74a4 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/2011-01/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.html http://ns3.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg47361.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/1 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/4 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/5 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/10/12 http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 http://secunia.com/advisories/42778 http://secunia.com/advisories/42789 http://secunia.com/advisories/42801 http://secunia.com/advisories/42932 http://secunia.com/advisories/42963 http://secunia.com/advisories/43291 http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36.1 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44648 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html 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/2011/0124 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0168 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0375 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651147