CVE-2010-4343 Information

Description

drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_core.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 does not initialize a certain port data structure which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via read operations on an fc_host statistics file.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7873ca4e4401f0ecd8868bf1543113467e6bae61 http://secunia.com/advisories/42884 http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/08/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/09/15 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45262 http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg43772.html http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661182

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5