Security Advisory

CVE-2008-0010

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-02-12 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 07:32:23
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The copy_from_user_mmap_sem function in fs/splice.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.22 through 2.6.24 does not validate a certain userspace pointer before dereference, which allow local users to read from arbitrary kernel memory locations.