CVE-2010-3080

Description

From CVE.org

Double free vulnerability in the snd_seq_oss_open function in sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4 might allow local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via an unsuccessful attempt to open the /dev/sequencer device.

Statement

This issue did not affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5 as it did not include upstream commit 7034632d that introduced the problem. It did not affect Red Hat Enterprise MRG as the /dev/sequencer device file is restricted to root access only.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score4.77.2N/A
Attack VectorLocalLocalN/A
Access ComplexityMediumLowN/A
AuthenticationNoneNoneN/A
Confidentiality ImpactNoneCompleteN/A
Integrity ImpactNoneCompleteN/A
Availability ImpactCompleteCompleteN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy for reporting this issue.

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