CVE-2010-4169
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.9 · Use-after-free
4.9CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in mm/mprotect.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 allows local users to cause a denial of service via vectors involving an mprotect system call.
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.
Official patch: http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128979684911295&w=2 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128979684911295&w=2Patch
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128984344103497&w=2Patch
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=63bfd7384b119409685a17d5c58f0b56e5dc03da
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42745Advisory