Description: Linux RDS Protocol Local Privilege Escalation CVE-2010-3904
Release Date : 2010-10-19
Affected : Linux Kernel 2.6.30 - 2.6.36-rc8
Vendor Status : Patch Released
Discovered by : Dan Rosenberg
CVE Candidate : CVE-2010-3904
http://www.vsecurity.com/advisory/20101019-1.txt
On October 13th, VSR identified a vulnerability in the RDS protocol, as implemented in the Linux kernel. Because kernel functions responsible for copying data between kernel and user space failed to verify that a user-provided address actually resided in the user segment, a local attacker could issue specially crafted socket function calls to write abritrary values into kernel memory. By leveraging this capability, it is possible for unprivileged users to escalate privileges to root.
Tags: linux , kernel , exploit , root , privileges , escalation ,
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