Published: 22/11/2010 Updated: 13/02/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 437

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Use-after-free vulnerability in mm/mprotect.c in the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.37-rc2 allows local users to cause a denial of service via vectors involving an mprotect system call.

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linux linux kernel 2.6.37
linux linux kernel
fedoraproject fedora 13
suse linux enterprise desktop 11
suse linux enterprise server 11
opensuse opensuse 11.3
suse linux enterprise real time extension 11

Multiple kernel flaws ...

An attacker could send crafted input to the kernel and cause it to crash ...

Multiple kernel vulnerablilities ...

Multiple kernel flaws ...

Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...

Multiple kernel flaws ...

Ubuntu Security Notice 1202-1 - Dan Rosenberg discovered that several network ioctls did not clear kernel memory correctly A local user could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy Brad Spengler discovered that stack memory for new a process was not correctly calculated A local attacker could exploit this to crash ...

CWE-416 http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128979684911295&w=2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44861 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.37-rc2 http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128984344103497&w=2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651671 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012 http://secunia.com/advisories/42778 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0124 http://secunia.com/advisories/42932 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/63316 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=63bfd7384b119409685a17d5c58f0b56e5dc03da https://nvd.nist.gov https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/105078/Ubuntu-Security-Notice-USN-1202-1.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/1083-1/

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