Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-2963

Title: Canonical Ubuntu Linux Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2010-2963

CWE Category CWE-20
Published Date Nov 26, 2010
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 6.2 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.82%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-2963: drivers/media/video/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c in the Video4Linux (V4L) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 on 64-bit platforms does not validate the destination of a memory copy operation, which allows local users to write to arbitrary kernel memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via a VIDIOCSTUNER ioctl call on a /dev/video device, followed by a VIDIOCSMICROCODE ioctl call on this device.

Impacted Vendors

S
suse 3
F
fedoraproject 1
L
linux 1
D
debian 1
U
ubuntu 2
C
canonical 1
R
redhat 1
O
opensuse 1

Reference Links

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3e645d6b485446c54c6745c5e2cf5c528fe4deec http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00008.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:257 http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2010/10/19/cve-2010-2963-v4l-compat-exploit/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44242 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024710 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642465 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3e645d6b485446c54c6745c5e2cf5c528fe4deec http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00008.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:257 http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2010/10/19/cve-2010-2963-v4l-compat-exploit/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44242 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024710 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642465
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.2
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-2963 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15344
View Code
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:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.