CVE-2013-4511

Multiple integer overflows in Alchemy LCD frame-buffer drivers in the Linux kernel before 3.12 allow local users to create a read-write memory mapping for the entirety of kernel memory, and consequently gain privileges, via crafted mmap operations, related to the (1) au1100fb_fb_mmap function in drivers/video/au1100fb.c and the (2) au1200fb_fb_mmap function in drivers/video/au1200fb.c.

Date published : 2013-11-11

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7314e613d5ff9f0934f7a0f74ed7973b903315d1

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7314e613d5ff9f0934f7a0f74ed7973b903315d1