VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2010-2962

CVSS score7.2 HIGH
EPSS probability0.48%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2010-11-26
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c in the Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) in the Intel i915 driver in the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not properly validate pointers to blocks of memory, which allows local users to write to arbitrary kernel memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via crafted use of the ioctl interface, related to (1) pwrite and (2) pread operations.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references