CVE-2010-1084 Information

Description

Linux kernel 2.6.18 through 2.6.33 and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a large number of Bluetooth sockets related to the size of sysfs files in (1) net/bluetooth/l2cap.c (2) net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c (3) net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c and (4) net/bluetooth/sco.c.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=101545f6fef4a0a3ea8daf0b5b880df2c6a92a69 http://secunia.com/advisories/39830 http://secunia.com/advisories/43315 http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-1084 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2053 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/23/1 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0610.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516397/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38898 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576018