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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2010-2954 Detail

Description

The irda_bind function in net/irda/af_irda.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc3-next-20100901 does not properly handle failure of the irda_open_tsap function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) and possibly have unspecified other impact via multiple unsuccessful calls to bind on an AF_IRDA (aka PF_IRDA) socket.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=628e300cccaa628d8fb92aa28cb7530a3d5f2257 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00005.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00000.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128331787923285&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/41234 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/41512 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://twitter.com/taviso/statuses/22635752128 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.36-rc3-next-20100901.bz2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg139404.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2266 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2430 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628770 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61522 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2010-2954
NVD Published Date:
09/03/2010
NVD Last Modified:
06/16/2026
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.