CVE-2010-4343 (GCVE-0-2010-4343)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-12-29 17:27 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:43
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_core.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 does not initialize a certain port data structure, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via read operations on an fc_host statistics file.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg43772.html | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
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| http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-20… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/42884 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/08/3 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661182 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvald… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2010-05-21 00:00
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