CVE-2010-3301

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 3.8%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDSep 22

1st PoCSep 16

exploitation probability

3.8%top 11% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

The IA32 system call emulation functionality in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4-git2 on the x86_64 platform does not zero extend the %eax register after the 32-bit entry path to ptrace is used, which allows local users to gain privileges by triggering an out-of-bounds access to the system call table using the %rax register. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2007-4573 regression.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/15023

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References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=36d001c70d8a0144ac1d038f6876c484849a74de http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eefdca043e8391dcd719711716492063030b55ac http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634449 http://secunia.com/advisories/42758 http://sota.gen.nz/compat2/http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.36-rc4-git2.log http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:198 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:247 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/16/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/16/3