CVE-2010-2962: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c in the Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) in the Intel i915 driver in the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not properly validate pointers to blocks of memory, which allows local users to write to arbitrary kernel memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via crafted use of the ioctl interface, related to (1) pwrite and (2) pread operations.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 9.10 only; version 10.04 only; version 10.10 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 13 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 2.6.36 (fixed in 2.6.36)
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 11.3 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: version 11 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension: version 11 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 11 only

Published 2010-11-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.