CVE-2010-3848

medium

Published 2010-12-30 · 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

7.9

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the econet_sendmsg function in net/econet/af_econet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2, when an econet address is configured, allows local users to gain privileges by providing a large number of iovec structures.

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-17787 local linux verified

Jon Oberheide · 2011-09-05

Linux Kernel < 2.6.36.2 (Ubuntu 10.04) - 'Half-Nelson.c' Econet Privilege Escalation

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

Debian Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
5.0	Affected	—

Linux kernel Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	`2.6.36.2`

SUSE Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
10	Affected	—
9	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
10.10	Affected	—
10.04	Affected	—
9.10	Affected	—
8.04	Affected	—
6.06	Affected	—

References

CWEs

CWE-787

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

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