CVE-2010-4649

Desbordamiento de enteros en la función ib_uverbs_poll_cq en drivers/InfiniBand/core/uverbs_cmd.c en el kernel de Linux antes de v2.6.37 permite a usuarios locales causar una denegación de servicio (corrupción de memoria) o posiblemente tener un impacto no especificado a través de un valor grande de un determinado miembro de una estructura.

USN-1080-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux kernel for use with EC2. Thomas Pollet discovered that the RDS network protocol did not check certain iovec buffers. Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation did not correctly clear kernel memory. Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel sockets implementation did not properly initialize certain structures. Nelson Elhage discovered that the Linux kernel IPv4 implementation did not properly audit certain bytecodes in netlink messages. Various other issues were also addressed.