CVE-2010-4256

LowCVSS 2.1/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 2.1/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c66fb347946ebdd5b10908866ecc9fa05ee2cf3d
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/30/6Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/30/9Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37Broken Link
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c66fb347946ebdd5b10908866ecc9fa05ee2cf3d
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/30/6Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/30/9Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37Broken Link

Timeline

Published: Jan 25, 2011
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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