CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-2240

7.2 HIGH Published 2010-09-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-09-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-94

Description

The do_anonymous_page function in mm/memory.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.52, 2.6.32.x before 2.6.32.19, 2.6.34.x before 2.6.34.4, and 2.6.35.x before 2.6.35.2 does not properly separate the stack and the heap, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by writing to the bottom page of a shared memory segment, as demonstrated by a memory-exhaustion attack against the X.Org X server.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.27.51) • linux linux kernel 2.6.32 • linux linux kernel 2.6.32.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.32.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.32.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.32.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.32.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.32.6 • linux linux kernel 2.6.32.7 • linux linux kernel 2.6.32.8 • linux linux kernel 2.6.32.9 • linux linux kernel 2.6.32.10 • linux linux kernel 2.6.32.11 • linux linux kernel 2.6.32.12 • linux linux kernel 2.6.32.13 • linux linux kernel 2.6.32.14 • linux linux kernel 2.6.32.15 • linux linux kernel 2.6.32.16 • linux linux kernel 2.6.32.17 • linux linux kernel 2.6.32.18 • linux linux kernel 2.6.34.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.34.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.34.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.35.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness

References