CVE-2010-1643
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 3, 2010
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Apr 29, 2010
Description
mm/shmem.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc3, when strict overcommit is enabled, 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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- [oss-security] 20100526 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=731572d39fcd3498702eda4600db4c43d51e0b26
- [oss-security] 20100526 CVE request - kernel: nfsd: fix vm overcommit crashmailing-list
- SUSE-SA:2010:031vendor-advisory
- 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-rc3
- 40645third-party-advisory
- linux-kernel-knfsd-dos(58957)vdb-entry
- http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Linux-kernel-denial-of-service-via-knfsd-9666
- 40377vdb-entry
- ADV-2010-1857vdb-entry
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