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CVE-2010-2803 Detail

Description

The drm_ioctl function in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c in the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.53, 2.6.32.x before 2.6.32.21, 2.6.34.x before 2.6.34.6, and 2.6.35.x before 2.6.35.4 allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory by requesting a large memory-allocation amount.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1b2f1489633888d4a06028315dc19d65768a1c05 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b9f0aee83335db1f3915f4e42a5e21b351740afd CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b9f0aee83335db1f3915f4e42a5e21b351740afd CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00004.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00005.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00000.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/41512 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2094 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.53 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.21 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34.6 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35.4 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:198 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2430 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621435 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2010-2803
NVD Published Date:
09/08/2010
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.