CVE-2010-3858 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-3858?

CVE-2010-3858 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 30 Nov 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The setup_arg_pages function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36, when CONFIG_STACK_GROWSDOWN is used, does not properly restrict the stack memory consumption of the (1) arguments and (2) environment for a 32-bit application on a 64-bit platform, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted exec system call, a related issue to CVE-2010-2240.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-3858?

It affects 3 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2010-3858?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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-2010-3858 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-3858 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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-j2mv-rmhw-vq9m.