CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-0727

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2010-03-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-03-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Description

The gfs2_lock function in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34-rc1-next-20100312, and the gfs_lock function in the Linux kernel on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6, does not properly remove POSIX locks on files that are setgid without group-execute permission, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) by locking a file on a (1) GFS or (2) GFS2 filesystem, and then changing this file's permissions.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.33.1) • debian debian linux 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux 6.0

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References