CVE-2010-4256 Information

Description

The pipe_fcntl function in fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not properly determine whether a file is a named pipe which allows local users to cause a denial of service via an F_SETPIPE_SZ fcntl call.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c66fb347946ebdd5b10908866ecc9fa05ee2cf3d http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/30/6 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/30/9 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37