cve-2010-4656
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-07-18 19:00
Modified
2024-08-07 03:51
Severity ?
Summary
The iowarrior_write function in drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not properly allocate memory, which might allow local users to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, and consequently cause a denial of service or gain privileges, via a long report.
Impacted products
n/an/a
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