CVE-2010-4243
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jan 22, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 16, 2010
Description
fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not enable the OOM Killer to assess use of stack memory by arrays representing the (1) arguments and (2) environment, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted exec system call, aka an "OOM dodging issue," a related issue to CVE-2010-3858.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- [oss-security] 20101122 CVE request: kernel: mm: mem allocated invisible to oom_kill() when not attached to any threadsmailing-list
- 20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Consolemailing-list
- RHSA-2011:0017vendor-advisory
- 46397third-party-advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625688
- linux-kernel-execve-dos(64700)vdb-entry
- [linux-kernel] 20100830 Re: [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately trigger OOM-killermailing-list
- 15619exploit
- [linux-kernel] 20101130 [PATCH 1/2] exec: make argv/envp memory visible to oom-killermailing-list
- [oss-security] 20101122 Re: CVE request: kernel: mm: mem allocated invisible to oom_kill() when not attached to any threadsmailing-list
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
- 42884third-party-advisory
- [linux-kernel] 20100827 [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately trigger OOM-killermailing-list
- [linux-kernel] 20100830 Re: [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately trigger OOM-killermailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3c77f845722158206a7209c45ccddc264d19319c
- http://grsecurity.net/~spender/64bit_dos.c
- [linux-kernel] 20100830 Re: [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately trigger OOM-killermailing-list
- 45004vdb-entry
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