CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4668
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-01-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
The blk_rq_map_user_iov function in block/blk-map.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via a zero-length I/O request in a device ioctl to a SCSI device, related to an unaligned map. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-4163.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.37)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.37
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5478755616ae2ef1ce144dded589b62b2a50d575 git.kernel.org
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/29/68 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/29/70 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/29/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/30/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/30/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.37-rc7 Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45660 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64496 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/363282/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5478755616ae2ef1ce144dded589b62b2a50d575 git.kernel.org
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/29/68 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/29/70 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/29/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/30/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/30/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.37-rc7 Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45660 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64496 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/363282/ Patch, Third Party Advisory