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CVE-2010-3442

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-10-04 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the snd_ctl_new function in sound/core/control.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc5-next-20100929 allow local users to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted (1) SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM_ADD or (2) SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM_REPLACE ioctl call.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, 10.10
• Debian Linux: 5.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 13
• Linux kernel: before 2.6.36; 2.6.36, 2.6.36-rc1, 2.6.36-rc2, 2.6.36-rc3, 2.6.36-rc4 — fixed in 2.6.36
• Opensuse: 11.2, 11.3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 10-sp3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension: 11-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 9, 10-sp3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 10-sp3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 2.6.36. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5591bf07225523600450edd9e6ad258bb877b779
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00004.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42400
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42745
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42778
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42789
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42801

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