Vulnerability in Linux Kernel
CVE-2010-4250
Memory leak in the inotify_init1 function in fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving failed attempts to create files.
EPSS: 0.008 (51.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Linux Linux_kernel — versions 2.6.36.1, 2.6.36.2, 2.6.36.3
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
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