CVE-2010-0410 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-0410?

CVE-2010-0410 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 21 Feb 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

drivers/connector/connector.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and system crash) by sending the kernel many NETLINK_CONNECTOR messages.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-0410?

It affects 3 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2010-0410?

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-2010-0410 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-0410 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-6fx5-48vv-pv9j.