CVE-2010-1086 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-1086?

CVE-2010-1086 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 6 Apr 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The ULE decapsulation functionality in drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_net.c in dvb-core in Linux kernel 2.6.33 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted MPEG2-TS frame, related to an invalid Payload Pointer ULE.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-1086?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2010-1086?

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-2010-1086 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-1086 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-cjcg-jhpx-2h48.