CVE-2010-4169

Description

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.

References

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.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128979684911295&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128984344103497&w=2

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651671

http://secunia.com/advisories/42745

http://secunia.com/advisories/42778

http://secunia.com/advisories/42932

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/63316

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.37-rc2

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0124

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2