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CVE-2010-4250
Published: Jun 21, 2012
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
Memory leak in the inotify_init1 function in fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving failed attempts to create files.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
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n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37
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[oss-security] 20101124 Re: CVE request: kernel: inotify memory leak
mailing-list
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656830
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