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CVE-2010-4243

Published: Jan 22, 2011

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not enable the OOM Killer to assess use of stack memory by arrays representing the (1) arguments and (2) environment, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted exec system call, aka an "OOM dodging issue," a related issue to CVE-2010-3858.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

[oss-security] 20101122 CVE request: kernel: mm: mem allocated invisible to oom_kill() when not attached to any threads

mailing-list

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20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Console

mailing-list

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vendor-advisory

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third-party-advisory

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625688

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linux-kernel-execve-dos(64700)

vdb-entry

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[linux-kernel] 20100830 Re: [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately trigger OOM-killer

mailing-list

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exploit

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[linux-kernel] 20101130 [PATCH 1/2] exec: make argv/envp memory visible to oom-killer

mailing-list

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[oss-security] 20101122 Re: CVE request: kernel: mm: mem allocated invisible to oom_kill() when not attached to any threads

mailing-list

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http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

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third-party-advisory

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[linux-kernel] 20100827 [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately trigger OOM-killer

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

[linux-kernel] 20100830 Re: [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately trigger OOM-killer

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3c77f845722158206a7209c45ccddc264d19319c

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http://grsecurity.net/~spender/64bit_dos.c

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[linux-kernel] 20100830 Re: [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately trigger OOM-killer

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

vdb-entry

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