Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's pipe_fcntl Function

CVE-2010-4256 · LOW Severity

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

The pipe_fcntl function in fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not properly determine whether a file is a named pipe, which allows local users to cause a denial of service via an F_SETPIPE_SZ fcntl call.

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