CVE-2011-0712
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.2 · Buffer overflow
7.2CVSS HIGH
Summary
Multiple buffer overflows in the caiaq Native Instruments USB audio functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38-rc4-next-20110215 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long USB device name, related to (1) the snd_usb_caiaq_audio_init function in sound/usb/caiaq/audio.c and (2) the snd_usb_caiaq_midi_init function in sound/usb/caiaq/midi.c.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/16/11 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/16/11Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/16/12Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/16/5Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677881Patch
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eaae55dac6b64c0616046436b294e69fc5311581
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.38-rc4-next-20110215.bz2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46419Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1146-1Advisory