National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2954

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628770

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628770

External Source: XF

Name: kernel-irdabind-dos(61522)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/61522

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0298

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-2430

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2430

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-2266

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2266

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1000-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1

External Source: MLIST

Name: [netdev] 20100830 [PATCH] irda: Correctly clean up self->ias_obj on irda_bind() failure.

Hyperlink:http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg139404.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.36-rc3-next-20100901.bz2

Hyperlink:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.36-rc3-next-20100901.bz2

External Source: MISC

Name: http://twitter.com/taviso/statuses/22635752128

Hyperlink:http://twitter.com/taviso/statuses/22635752128

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 41512

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/41512

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 41234

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/41234

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100901 CVE-2010-2954 kernel: irda null ptr deref

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128331787923285&w=2

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2011:007

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2010:052

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00000.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2010:052

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00000.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2010:050

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2010:041

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00005.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commit;h=628e300cccaa628d8fb92aa28cb7530a3d5f2257

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commit;h=628e300cccaa628d8fb92aa28cb7530a3d5f2257