CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4256
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-01-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The pipe_fcntl function in fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not properly determine whether a file is a named pipe, which allows local users to cause a denial of service via an F_SETPIPE_SZ fcntl call.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.37)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c66fb347946ebdd5b10908866ecc9fa05ee2cf3d git.kernel.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/30/6 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/30/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37 Broken Link
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c66fb347946ebdd5b10908866ecc9fa05ee2cf3d git.kernel.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/30/6 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/30/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37 Broken Link