SB2010112201 - Denial of service in Linux kernel mm
Published: November 22, 2010 Updated: June 4, 2024
Security Bulletin ID
SB2010112201
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2010-4169)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in mm/mprotect.c. A local user can crash the OS kernel.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128979684911295&w=2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44861
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.37-rc2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128984344103497&w=2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651671
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42745
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42778
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0124
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42932
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/63316
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=63bfd7384b119409685a17d5c58f0b56e5dc03da