Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-2962

Title: Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-2962.

CWE Category CWE-20
Published Date Nov 26, 2010
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.48%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-2962: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c in the Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) in the Intel i915 driver in the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not properly validate pointers to blocks of memory, which allows local users to write to arbitrary kernel memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via crafted use of the ioctl interface, related to (1) pwrite and (2) pread operations.

Impacted Vendors

L
linux 1
U
ubuntu 2
C
canonical 1
R
redhat 1
O
opensuse 1
S
suse 4
F
fedoraproject 1

Reference Links

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ce9d419dbecc292cc3e06e8b1d6d123d3fa813a4 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 http://secunia.com/advisories/42758 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44067 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1041-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0070 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637688 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ce9d419dbecc292cc3e06e8b1d6d123d3fa813a4 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 http://secunia.com/advisories/42758 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44067 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1041-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0070 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637688
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.2
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-2962 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.