CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-2954
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-09-03
- 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-476
Description
The irda_bind function in net/irda/af_irda.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc3-next-20100901 does not properly handle failure of the irda_open_tsap function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) and possibly have unspecified other impact via multiple unsuccessful calls to bind on an AF_IRDA (aka PF_IRDA) socket.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.36)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.36
• opensuse opensuse 11.3
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse linux enterprise server 11
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.06
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 9.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 9.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=628e300cccaa628d8fb92aa28cb7530a3d5f2257 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00005.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128331787923285&w=2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41234 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41512 Third Party Advisory
- http://twitter.com/taviso/statuses/22635752128 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.36-rc3-next-20100901.bz2 Broken Link
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg139404.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2266 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2430 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628770 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61522 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=628e300cccaa628d8fb92aa28cb7530a3d5f2257 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00005.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128331787923285&w=2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41234 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41512 Third Party Advisory
- http://twitter.com/taviso/statuses/22635752128 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.36-rc3-next-20100901.bz2 Broken Link
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg139404.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2266 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2430 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628770 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61522 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry