CVE-2010-4250

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 0.8%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDJun 21

1st PoCNov 24

exploitation probability

0.8%top 48% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

Memory leak in the inotify_init1 function in fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving failed attempts to create files.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/35013

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References

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656830 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/11