CVE-2010-4243
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 0.9%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDJan 22
1st PoCNov 26
exploitation probability
0.9%top 43% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
2 public exploit(s)
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 2
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References
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3c77f845722158206a7209c45ccddc264d19319chttp://grsecurity.net/~spender/64bit_dos.chttp://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2010-11/msg13278.htmlhttp://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/27/429http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/29/206http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/138http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/378http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/22/15http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/22/6https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625688http://secunia.com/advisories/42884http://secunia.com/advisories/46397