CVE-2010-3301

The IA32 system call emulation functionality in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4-git2 on the x86_64 platform does not zero…

published September 22, 2010

CVSS
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EPSS
4%
Percentile
90.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The IA32 system call emulation functionality in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4-git2 on the x86_64 platform does not zero extend the %eax register after the 32-bit entry path to ptrace is used, which allows local users to gain privileges by triggering an out-of-bounds access to the system call table using the %rax register. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2007-4573 regression.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03818 · 90.0th percentile
Published
2010-09-22T18:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 SEP 18:00Z
    The IA32 system call emulation functionality in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4-git2 on the x86_64 platform does not zero…
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