CVE-2010-3858
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 30, 2010
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 8, 2010
Description
The setup_arg_pages function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36, when CONFIG_STACK_GROWSDOWN is used, does not properly restrict the stack memory consumption of the (1) arguments and (2) environment for a 32-bit application on a 64-bit platform, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted exec system call, a related issue to CVE-2010-2240.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
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References
- 42789third-party-advisory
- ADV-2011-0024vdb-entry
- RHSA-2011:0004vendor-advisory
- 20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Consolemailing-list
- 46397third-party-advisory
- USN-1041-1vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20101021 CVE request: kernel: setup_arg_pages: diagnose excessive argument sizemailing-list
- RHSA-2010:0958vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1b528181b2ffa14721fb28ad1bd539fe1732c583
- MDVSA-2010:257vendor-advisory
- 15619exploit
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
- 42758third-party-advisory
- [oss-security] 20101022 Re: CVE request: kernel: setup_arg_pages: diagnose excessive argument sizemailing-list
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36
- 44301vdb-entry
- http://grsecurity.net/~spender/64bit_dos.c
- ADV-2011-0070vdb-entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645222
- DSA-2126vendor-advisory
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