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Tracker / CVE-2010-3904

CVE-2010-3904

Exploited High 7.8

The rds_page_copy_user function in net/rds/page.c in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not properly validate addresses obtained from user space, which allows local users to gain privileges via crafted use of the sendmsg and recvmsg system calls.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.36
opensuse opensuse
redhat enterprise_linux
suse linux_enterprise_desktop
suse linux_enterprise_real_time_extension
suse linux_enterprise_server
vmware esxi

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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