CVE-2010-3865

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the rds_rdma_pages function in net/rds/rdma.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted iovec struct in a Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) request, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.36
Opensuse: 11.2, 11.3
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension: 11-sp1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time: 11-sp1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/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://secunia.com/advisories/42778
http://secunia.com/advisories/42789
http://secunia.com/advisories/42801
http://secunia.com/advisories/42890
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/29/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/01/1
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html

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