Security Advisory

CVE-2010-4243

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-01-22 21:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 03:34:37

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State 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.

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