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CVE-2010-4242

Date: January 10, 2011

The hci_uart_tty_open function in the HCI UART driver (drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c) in the Linux kernel 2.6.36, and possibly other versions, does not verify whether the tty has a write operation, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via vectors related to the Bluetooth driver.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.1

Related Resources (24)

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45014

Url: http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/cve-2010-4242-linux-kernel-bluetooth-hci-uart-invalid-pointer-access/

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/43291

Url: https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/7/255

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64617

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4242

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/42890

Url: http://git.kernel.org/linus/c19483cc5e56ac5e22dd19cf25ba210ab1537773

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/46397

Url: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/42963

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641410

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/42789

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2010-4242

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0168

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4242

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0375

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2010-4242

Severity Score

5.1

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.1
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.0
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2010-4242

Date: January 10, 2011

Language: C

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