CVE-2010-2492

Description

Buffer overflow in the ecryptfs_uid_hash macro in fs/ecryptfs/messaging.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 might allow local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) via unspecified vectors.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611385

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded

http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100113326

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a6f80fb7b5986fda663d94079d3bba0937a6b6ff

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3