CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4250
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-06-21
- 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-399
Description
Memory leak in the inotify_init1 function in fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving failed attempts to create files.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.36.4)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.36.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.36.2
• linux linux kernel 2.6.36.3
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37 ftp.osuosl.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/11 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656830 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab Patch
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37 ftp.osuosl.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/11 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656830 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab Patch