CVE-2010-2954
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 3, 2010
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 4, 2010
Description
The irda_bind function in net/irda/af_irda.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc3-next-20100901 does not properly handle failure of the irda_open_tsap function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) and possibly have unspecified other impact via multiple unsuccessful calls to bind on an AF_IRDA (aka PF_IRDA) socket.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- USN-1000-1vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2010:041vendor-advisory
- 41234third-party-advisory
- http://twitter.com/taviso/statuses/22635752128
- kernel-irdabind-dos(61522)vdb-entry
- ADV-2010-2430vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20100901 CVE-2010-2954 kernel: irda null ptr derefmailing-list
- SUSE-SA:2011:007vendor-advisory
- [netdev] 20100830 [PATCH] irda: Correctly clean up self->ias_obj on irda_bind() failure.mailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628770
- ADV-2011-0298vdb-entry
- SUSE-SA:2010:050vendor-advisory
- ADV-2010-2266vdb-entry
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.36-rc3-next-20100901.bz2
- SUSE-SA:2010:054vendor-advisory
- 41512third-party-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=628e300cccaa628d8fb92aa28cb7530a3d5f2257
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