CVE-2010-4527: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The load_mixer_volumes function in sound/oss/soundcard.c in the OSS sound subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 incorrectly expects that a certain name field ends with a '\0' character, which allows local users to conduct buffer overflow attacks and gain privileges, or possibly obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, via a SOUND_MIXER_SETLEVELS ioctl call.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 2.6.37 (fixed in 2.6.37)

Published 2011-01-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.