CVE-2010-4250
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 21, 2012
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 16, 2010
Description
Memory leak in the inotify_init1 function in fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving failed attempts to create files.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab
- [oss-security] 20101124 Re: CVE request: kernel: inotify memory leakmailing-list
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656830
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