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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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CVE-2010-4527 Detail

Description

The load_mixer_volumes function in sound/oss/soundcard.c in the OSS sound subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 incorrectly expects that a certain name field ends with a '\0' character, which allows local users to conduct buffer overflow attacks and gain privileges, or possibly obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, via a SOUND_MIXER_SETLEVELS ioctl call.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d81a12bc29ae4038770e05dce4ab7f26fd5880fb CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/31/1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/31/4 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/42765 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/43291 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45629 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0375 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/cve-2010-4527-linux-kernel-oss-sound-card-driver-buffer-overflow/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667615 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2010-4527
NVD Published Date:
01/13/2011
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.