CVE-2010-4243 (GCVE-0-2010-4243)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-01-22 21:00
Modified
2024-08-07 03:34
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not enable the OOM Killer to assess use of stack memory by arrays representing the (1) arguments and (2) environment, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted exec system call, aka an "OOM dodging issue," a related issue to CVE-2010-3858.
References
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/22/6 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625688 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64700 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/378 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15619 exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2010-11/msg13278.html mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/22/15 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/42884 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/27/429 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/138 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3c77f845722158206a7209c45ccddc264d19319c x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://grsecurity.net/~spender/64bit_dos.c x_refsource_MISC
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/29/206 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45004 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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