CVE-2011-1016 Information

Description

The Radeon GPU drivers in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38-rc5 do not properly validate data related to the AA resolve registers which allows local users to write to arbitrary memory locations associated with (1) Video RAM (aka VRAM) or (2) the Graphics Translation Table (GTT) via crafted values.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fff1ce4dc6113b6fdc4e3a815ca5fd229408f8ef http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/24/11 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/24/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/25/4 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.38-rc5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46557 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680000 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65691