Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-4157

Title: Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-4157.

CWE Category CWE-190
Published Date Dec 10, 2010
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.2 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.54%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-4157: Integer overflow in the ioc_general function in drivers/scsi/gdth.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.1 on 64-bit platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large argument in an ioctl call.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f63ae56e4e97fb12053590e41a4fa59e7daa74a4 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.html http://ns3.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg47361.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/1 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/4 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/5 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/10/12 http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 http://secunia.com/advisories/42778 http://secunia.com/advisories/42789 http://secunia.com/advisories/42801 http://secunia.com/advisories/42932 http://secunia.com/advisories/42963 http://secunia.com/advisories/43291 http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36.1 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44648 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0124 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0168 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0375 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651147 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f63ae56e4e97fb12053590e41a4fa59e7daa74a4 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.html http://ns3.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg47361.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/1 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/4 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/5 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/10/12 http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 http://secunia.com/advisories/42778 http://secunia.com/advisories/42789 http://secunia.com/advisories/42801 http://secunia.com/advisories/42932 http://secunia.com/advisories/42963 http://secunia.com/advisories/43291 http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36.1 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44648 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0124 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0168 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0375 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651147
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-2010-4157 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:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.