CVE-2010-3849

Description

The econet_sendmsg function in net/econet/af_econet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2, when an econet address is configured, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a sendmsg call that specifies a NULL value for the remote address field.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644156

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0375

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0213

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1023-1

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:257

http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126

http://secunia.com/advisories/43291

http://secunia.com/advisories/43056

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/30/1

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00007.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fa0e846494792e722d817b9d3d625a4ef4896c96

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3