CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-4242

4.0 MEDIUM Published 2011-01-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-01-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The hci_uart_tty_open function in the HCI UART driver (drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c) in the Linux kernel 2.6.36, and possibly other versions, does not verify whether the tty has a write operation, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via vectors related to the Bluetooth driver.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.36

References