Published: 21/06/2012 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.7 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

VMScore: 475

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

Double free vulnerability in the inotify subsystem in the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.39 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors involving failed attempts to create files. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-4250.

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linux linux kernel 2.6.38
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linux linux kernel 2.6.38.6
linux linux kernel 2.6.38.1
linux linux kernel 2.6.38.5
linux linux kernel 2.6.38.2
linux linux kernel 2.6.38.4
linux linux kernel 2.6.38.7

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...

/* source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/47296/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://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/11/1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691793 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35600/https://usn.ubuntu.com/1243-1/

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