CVE-2010-4242
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jan 11, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 16, 2010
Description
The hci_uart_tty_open function in the HCI UART driver (drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c) in the Linux kernel 2.6.36, and possibly other versions, does not verify whether the tty has a write operation, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via vectors related to the Bluetooth driver.
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
- 42789third-party-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/linus/c19483cc5e56ac5e22dd19cf25ba210ab1537773
- 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
- kernel-hciuartttyopen-dos(64617)vdb-entry
- RHSA-2011:0007vendor-advisory
- 45014vdb-entry
- 42963third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641410
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
- ADV-2011-0375vdb-entry
- 42890third-party-advisory
- RHSA-2011:0162vendor-advisory
- [linux-kernel] 20101007 Peculiar stuff in hci_ath3k/badness in hci_uartmailing-list
- SUSE-SA:2011:008vendor-advisory
- ADV-2011-0168vdb-entry
- http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/cve-2010-4242-linux-kernel-bluetooth-hci-uart-invalid-pointer-access/
- 43291third-party-advisory
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