Vulnerability CVE-2010-4169
Published: 2010-11-22   Modified: 2012-02-13

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
Linux Kernel \'perf_event_mmap()\' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
Dave Jones
25.11.2010

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.9/10
6.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Linux -> Kernel 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651671
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128984344103497&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128979684911295&w=2
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=63bfd7384b119409685a17d5c58f0b56e5dc03da
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/63316
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0124
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44861
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.37-rc2
http://secunia.com/advisories/42932
http://secunia.com/advisories/42778
http://secunia.com/advisories/42745
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html
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