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CVE-2010-4527
high
Description
The load_mixer_volumes function in sound/oss/soundcard.c in the OSS sound subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 incorrectly expects that a certain name field ends with a '\0' character, which allows local users to conduct buffer overflow attacks and gain privileges, or possibly obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, via a SOUND_MIXER_SETLEVELS ioctl call.
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667615
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0375
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45629
http://secunia.com/advisories/43291
http://secunia.com/advisories/42765
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/31/4
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/31/1
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.html