CVE-2010-3442: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 6.06 only; version 8.04 only; version 9.04 only; version 9.10 only; version 10.04 only; version 10.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 5.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 13 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 2.6.36 (fixed in 2.6.36); version 2.6.36 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 11.2 only; version 11.3 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: version 10 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension: version 11 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 9 only; version 10 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: version 10 only

Published 2010-10-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.