4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
14.3%
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.
Author | Note |
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mdeslaur | reproducer: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/418 |
apw | identified the introducing commit as: 825f9692fbe417b9fb529477056ba72022847038 |
launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2010-4250
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4250
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4250
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1081-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1187-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1394-1
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4250
www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2011-March/msg00022.html