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CVE-2010-0410 Detail

Description

drivers/connector/connector.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and system crash) by sending the kernel many NETLINK_CONNECTOR messages.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/12/2010)

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2010-0410. This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, as they do not include support for kernel connectors. Future updates in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG may address this flaw.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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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=f98bfbd78c37c5946cc53089da32a5f741efdeb7 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035070.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035159.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00000.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00006.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00007.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/38492 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/38557 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/38779 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/38922 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/39033 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/39649 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/39742 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/43315 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100088287 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1996 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2005 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.8 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:088 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2010_23_kernel.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/02/03/1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/02/03/3 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0161.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0398.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516397/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38058 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-914-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0638 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561682 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10903 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2010-0410
NVD Published Date:
02/22/2010
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.