Published: 21/06/2012 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

Memory leak in the inotify_init1 function in fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c in the Linux kernel prior to 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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/* source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/45036/info The Linux kernel is prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability Attackers can exploit this issue to cause an out-of-memory condition, denying service to legitimate users */ #include <sys/inotifyh> #include <unistdh> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int fds[2 ...

CWE-399 http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656830 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/11 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35013/https://usn.ubuntu.com/1394-1/

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