CVE-2010-4250

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

Publication date:

21/06/2012

Last modified:

11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

4.90

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::		2.6.36.4 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.36.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.36.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.36.3:::::::*

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CVE-2010-4250

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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