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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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CVE-2010-4157 Detail

Description

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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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=f63ae56e4e97fb12053590e41a4fa59e7daa74a4 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00004.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00001.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.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://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://ns3.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg47361.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/3 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/4 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/09/5 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/10/12 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/42778 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/42789 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/42801 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/42932 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/42963 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/43291 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36.1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44648 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0124 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0168 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0375 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651147 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2010-4157
NVD Published Date:
12/10/2010
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.