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
kernel is vulnerable to denial of service. A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the io_submit_one() function in the Linux kernel asynchronous I/O implementation. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service.
docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html-single/5.5_Technical_Notes/index.html#RHSA-2010:0839
git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=87e2831c3fa39cbf6f7ab676bb5aef039b9659e2
git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=87e2831c3fa39cbf6f7ab676bb5aef039b9659e2
secunia.com/advisories/46397
securitytracker.com/id?1024708
www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.23
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0839.html
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded
www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0839
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631716