CVE-2012-2383

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-06-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the i915_gem_execbuffer2 function in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c in the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.3.5 on 32-bit platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ioctl call.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.3.4; 3.3, 3.3-rc1, 3.3-rc2, 3.3-rc3, 3.3-rc4, 3.3-rc5 (+5)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ed8cd3b2cd61004cab85380c52b1817aca1ca49b
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1156.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/22/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53971
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824176
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ed8cd3b2cd61004cab85380c52b1817aca1ca49b
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ed8cd3b2cd61004cab85380c52b1817aca1ca49b
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1156.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.5

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