National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0410
Original release date:02/22/2010
Last revised:03/19/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.8
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561682
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-0638
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-914-1
External Source: BID
Name: 38058
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20110211 VMSA-2011-0003 Third party component updates for VMware vCenter Server, vCenter Update Manager, ESXi and ESX
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2010:0398
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2010:0161
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100203 Re: CVE request: kernel OOM/crash in drivers/connector
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100203 CVE request: kernel OOM/crash in drivers/connector
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2010:023
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2010:088
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2005
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1996
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100088287
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 43315
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39742
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39649
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39033
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 38922
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 38779
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 38557
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 38492
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10903
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2010:019
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2010:018
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2010:014
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2010-1787
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2010-1804
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f98bfbd78c37c5946cc53089da32a5f741efdeb7
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10903
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)
