{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2010-10-03T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: arbitrary kernel memory write via i915 GEM ioctl",
    "id" : "637688",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637688"
  },
  "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-119",
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "statement" : "The Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG did not include support for Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) in the i915 driver, and therefore are not affected by this issue.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Kees Cook for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "MRG for RHEL-5",
    "release_date" : "2010-12-08T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0958",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1::el5",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.33.7-rt29.47.el5rt"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2010-11-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0842",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-71.7.1.el6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-2962\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2962" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2010-2962",
  "csaw" : false
}