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CVE-2010-4169

Date: November 20, 2010

Use-after-free vulnerability in mm/mprotect.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 allows local users to cause a denial of service via vectors involving an mprotect system call.

Language: C

Severity Score

6.2

Related Resources (23)

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4169

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44861

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/63316

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651671

Url: http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128979684911295&w=2

Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=63bfd7384b119409685a17d5c58f0b56e5dc03da

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4169

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.html

Url: http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128984344103497&w=2

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2010-4169

Url: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.37-rc2

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/42778

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/42932

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/42745

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0124

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2010-4169

Severity Score

6.2

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

Use After Free

CWE-416

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.2
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2010-4169

Date: November 20, 2010

Language: C

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