CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4248
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-362
Description
Race condition in the __exit_signal function in kernel/exit.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 allows local users to cause a denial of service via vectors related to multithreaded exec, the use of a thread group leader in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c, and the selection of a new thread group leader in the de_thread function in fs/exec.c.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.37)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.37
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e0a70217107e6f9844628120412cb27bb4cea194 git.kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42789 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.37-rc2 Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:029 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/23/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45028 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656264 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e0a70217107e6f9844628120412cb27bb4cea194 git.kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42789 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.37-rc2 Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:029 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/23/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45028 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656264 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory