CVE-2010-1436 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2010-1436?

CVE-2010-1436 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 May 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

gfs2 in the Linux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, does not properly handle when the gfs2_quota struct occupies two separate pages, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via certain manipulations that cause an out-of-bounds write, as demonstrated by writing from an ext3 file system to a gfs2 file system.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-1436?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2010-1436?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2010-1436 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-1436 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-mm65-5ccf-vcxq.