CVE-2010-0410
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.9 · CWE-399
4.9CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
drivers/connector/connector.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and system crash) by sending the kernel many NETLINK_CONNECTOR messages.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f98bfbd78c37c5946cc53089da32a5f741efdeb7
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035070.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035159.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00000.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00006.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00007.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38492Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38557Advisory