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CVE-2010-4243 Detail

Description

fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not enable the OOM Killer to assess use of stack memory by arrays representing the (1) arguments and (2) environment, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted exec system call, aka an "OOM dodging issue," a related issue to CVE-2010-3858.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3c77f845722158206a7209c45ccddc264d19319c CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://grsecurity.net/~spender/64bit_dos.c CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2010-11/msg13278.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/27/429 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/29/206 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/138 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/378 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/22/15 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/22/6 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/42884 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15619 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45004 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625688 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64700 CVE, Inc., Red Hat VDB Entry 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2010-4243
NVD Published Date:
01/22/2011
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.