Published: 22/01/2011 Updated: 13/02/2023

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

VMScore: 495

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

fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel prior to 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.

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// source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/44301/info /* known for over a year, fixed in grsec bug is due to a bad limit on the max size of the stack for 32bit apps on a 64bit OS Instead of them being limited to 1/4th of a 32bit address space, they're limited to 1/4th of a 64bit address space -- oops! in combination with vanilla AS ...

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-400 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/22/6 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625688 http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/138 http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/378 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15619 http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/27/429 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/22/15 http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2010-11/msg13278.html http://grsecurity.net/~spender/64bit_dos.c http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/29/206 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42884 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45004 http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64700 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3c77f845722158206a7209c45ccddc264d19319c https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15619/https://usn.ubuntu.com/1204-1/

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