CVE-2010-1643

CVE-2010-1643 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

mm/shmem.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc3, when strict overcommit is enabled, does not properly handle the export of shmemfs objects by knfsd, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and knfsd crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

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