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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2010-4242 Detail

Description

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.


Evaluator Description

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'

Metrics

 
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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.kernel.org/linus/c19483cc5e56ac5e22dd19cf25ba210ab1537773 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/42789 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/42963 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/43291 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45014 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0168 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0375 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/cve-2010-4242-linux-kernel-bluetooth-hci-uart-invalid-pointer-access/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Patch 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641410 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64617 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/7/255 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2010-4242
NVD Published Date:
01/10/2011
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.