CVE-2010-0307 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-0307?

CVE-2010-0307 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 17 Feb 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The load_elf_binary function in fs/binfmt_elf.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32.8 on the x86_64 platform does not ensure that the ELF interpreter is available before a call to the SET_PERSONALITY macro, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a 32-bit application that attempts to execute a 64-bit application and then triggers a segmentation fault, as demonstrated by amd64_killer, related to the flush_old_exec function.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-0307?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2010-0307?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2010-0307 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2010-0307 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-536m-75pg-6c2v.