CVE-2010-0410 Information

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.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f98bfbd78c37c5946cc53089da32a5f741efdeb7 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035070.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035159.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00007.html http://secunia.com/advisories/38492 http://secunia.com/advisories/38557 http://secunia.com/advisories/38779 http://secunia.com/advisories/38922 http://secunia.com/advisories/39033 http://secunia.com/advisories/39649 http://secunia.com/advisories/39742 http://secunia.com/advisories/43315 http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100088287 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1996 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2005 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.8 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:088 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2010_23_kernel.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/02/03/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/02/03/3 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0161.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0398.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516397/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38058 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-914-1 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0638 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561682 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10903