Linux Kernel Memory Leak in inotify_init() Lets Local Users Deny Service
|
|
SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1024788 |
|
SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1024788
|
|
CVE Reference:
CVE-2010-4250
(Links to External Site)
|
Updated: Apr 12 2011
|
Original Entry Date: Nov 25 2010
|
Impact:
Denial of service via local system
|
Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes Exploit Included: Yes
|
Version(s): 2.6.36.1 and prior versions
|
Description:
A vulnerability was reported in the Linux Kernel. A local user can cause denial of service conditions.
A local user can trigger a memory leak in inotify_init() to consume excessive memory resources on the target system.
Vegard Nossum reported this vulnerability.
|
Impact:
A local user can cause denial of service conditions on the target system.
|
Solution:
No solution was available at the time of this entry.
[Editor's note: The vendor issued a fix (a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab, v2.6.37-rc5) which was later found to contain a regression. The new vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2011-1479 (Alert ID 1025321).
|
Vendor URL: www.kernel.org/ (Links to External Site)
|
Cause:
Resource error
|
Underlying OS:
|
|
Message History:
This archive entry has one or more follow-up message(s) listed below.
|
Source Message Contents
|
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 20:11:16 +0000
Subject: Linux Kernel
|
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1067173
> Inotify memory leak
|
|
