CVE-2008-7256
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 3, 2010
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 3, 2010
Description
mm/shmem.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc8, when strict overcommit is enabled and CONFIG_SECURITY is disabled, does not properly handle the export of shmemfs objects by knfsd, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and knfsd crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-1643.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- MDVSA-2010:198vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595970
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/v2.6.28/ChangeLog-2.6.28-rc8
- kernel-shmem-dos(59224)vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20100527 Re: CVE request - kernel: nfsd: fix vm overcommit crashmailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1b79cd04fab80be61dcd2732e2423aafde9a4c1c
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