Improper Privilege Management in Linux kernel - CVE-2010-3301

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Improper Privilege Management in Linux kernel - CVE-2010-3301

Published: June 4, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU91074
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2010-3301
CWE-ID: CWE-269
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges.

The vulnerability exists due to the IA32 system call emulation functionality in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S  on the x86_64 platform does not zero extend the %eax register after the 32-bit entry path to ptrace is used. A local user can use the %rax register to escalate privileges on the system.

Note, the vulnerability exists due to a CVE-2007-4573 regression.


Affected software

Linux kernel
Ubuntu
linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu package)
linux (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2010-3301

Install update from vendor's website.

Linux kernel - update to 2.6.36 rc4
linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu package) - update to 2.6.15-55.88
linux (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 2.6.24-28.79, 2.6.28-19.65, 2.6.31-22.65, 2.6.31-22.70, 2.6.32-24.43, 2.6.32-27.49, 2.6.35-24.42

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