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CVE-2010-4256
Published: Jan 25, 2011
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
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References
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37
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[oss-security] 20101130 Re: CVE request: kernel: pipe_fcntl local DoS
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[oss-security] 20101130 CVE request: kernel: pipe_fcntl local DoS
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