CVE-2011-1746 Information

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) agp_allocate_memory and (2) agp_create_user_memory functions in drivers/char/agp/generic.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38.5 allow local users to trigger buffer overflows and consequently cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to calls that specify a large number of memory pages.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b522f02184b413955f3bc952e3776ce41edc6355 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/21/4 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/22/7 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0927.html http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38.5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47535 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698998 https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/14/294 https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/19/400