National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1169

Overview

Array index error in the asihpi_hpi_ioctl function in sound/pci/asihpi/hpioctl.c in the AudioScience HPI driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38.1 might allow local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted adapter index value that triggers access to an invalid kernel pointer.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4a122c10fbfe9020df469f0f669da129c5757671

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4a122c10fbfe9020df469f0f669da129c5757671

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688898

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688898

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38.1

Hyperlink:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38.1

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110318 Re: CVE request: kernel: AudioScience HPI driver

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/18/2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110318 CVE request: kernel: AudioScience HPI driver

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/18/1