CVE-2010-4343

medium

Description

drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_core.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 does not initialize a certain port data structure, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via read operations on an fc_host statistics file.

References

Advisories
More

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661182

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg43772.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45262

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/09/15

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/08/3

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7873ca4e4401f0ecd8868bf1543113467e6bae61

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-12-29

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H