CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-3880

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2010-12-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-12-10
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-835

Description

net/ipv4/inet_diag.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 does not properly audit INET_DIAG bytecode, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel infinite loop) via crafted INET_DIAG_REQ_BYTECODE instructions in a netlink message that contains multiple attribute elements, as demonstrated by INET_DIAG_BC_JMP instructions.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.37) • linux linux kernel 2.6.37 • debian debian linux 5.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References