CVE-2010-3859: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple integer signedness errors in the TIPC implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted sendmsg call that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to the tipc_msg_build function in net/tipc/msg.c and the verify_iovec function in net/core/iovec.c.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 5.0 only
  • Linux Linux Kernel: before 2.6.36.2 (fixed in 2.6.36.2)

Published 2010-12-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.