CVE-2010-2803

low

Published 2010-09-08 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.9

Description

The drm_ioctl function in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c in the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.53, 2.6.32.x before 2.6.32.21, 2.6.34.x before 2.6.34.6, and 2.6.35.x before 2.6.35.4 allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory by requesting a large memory-allocation amount.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
5.0	Affected	—

Linux kernel Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	`2.6.27.53`

SUSE Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
11.3	Affected	—
11.1	Affected	—
11	Affected	—

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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