{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2010-07-13T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: ecryptfs_uid_hash() buffer overflow",
    "id" : "611385",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611385"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "7.2",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-228->CWE-119",
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "statement" : "The Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and Red Hat\nEnterprise MRG did not include support for eCryptfs, and therefore are not\naffected by this issue. A future update in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 may\naddress this flaw.  This was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0723.html.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Andre Osterhues for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2010-09-29T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0723",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-194.17.1.el5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2011-01-11T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0007",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-71.14.1.el6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-2492\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2492" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2010-2492",
  "csaw" : false
}