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…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.43% · top 63% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-416 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-416 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (19)

• SUSE-SA:2011:004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 42778 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 44861 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.37-rc2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• FEDORA-2010-18983 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=63bfd7384b119409685a17d5c58f0b56e5dc03da (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2011:001 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 42932 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• kernel-perfeventmmap-dos(63316) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• ADV-2011-0124 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651671 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2011:007 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• ADV-2010-3321 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• ADV-2011-0298 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• RHSA-2010:0958 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20101115 Re: CVE request: kernel: perf bug (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20101115 CVE request: kernel: perf bug (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• ADV-2011-0012 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 42745 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 03:34 UTC.