CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-3858
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-11-30
- 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-400
Description
The setup_arg_pages function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36, when CONFIG_STACK_GROWSDOWN is used, does not properly restrict the stack memory consumption of the (1) arguments and (2) environment for a 32-bit application on a 64-bit platform, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted exec system call, a related issue to CVE-2010-2240.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.36)
• debian debian linux 5.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 9.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1b528181b2ffa14721fb28ad1bd539fe1732c583 git.kernel.org
- http://grsecurity.net/~spender/64bit_dos.c Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42758 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42789 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15619 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:257 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/21/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/22/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44301 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1041-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0070 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645222 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1b528181b2ffa14721fb28ad1bd539fe1732c583 git.kernel.org
- http://grsecurity.net/~spender/64bit_dos.c Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42758 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42789 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15619 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:257 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/21/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/22/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44301 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1041-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0070 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645222 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory