CVE-2010-4169

Published: 22 November 2010

Use-after-free vulnerability in mm/mprotect.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 allows local users to cause a denial of service via vectors involving an mprotect system call.

From the Ubuntu security team

Dave Jones discovered that the mprotect system call did not correctly handle merged VMAs. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
linux Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc2)







	Patches: Upstream: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=63bfd7384b119409685a17d5c58f0b56e5dc03da Karmic: http://chinstrap.ubuntu.com/~bradf/CVEs/CVE-2010-4169/patches/karmic/linux/0001-perf_events-Fix-perf_counter_mmap-hook-in-mprotect.txt Lucid: http://chinstrap.ubuntu.com/~bradf/CVEs/CVE-2010-4169/patches/lucid/linux/0001-perf_events-Fix-perf_counter_mmap-hook-in-mprotect.txt Maverick: http://chinstrap.ubuntu.com/~bradf/CVEs/CVE-2010-4169/patches/maverick/linux/0001-perf_events-Fix-perf_counter_mmap-hook-in-mprotect.txt
linux-ec2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc2)







linux-fsl-imx51 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc2)







linux-lts-backport-maverick Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc2)







linux-lts-backport-natty Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc2)







linux-mvl-dove Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc2)







linux-source-2.6.15 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc2)







linux-ti-omap4 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc2)

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	introduced in dab5855

References

Bugs

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651671

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