CVE-2010-3873 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2010-3873?

CVE-2010-3873 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 3 Jan 2011. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The X.25 implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 does not properly parse facilities, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via malformed (1) X25_FAC_CALLING_AE or (2) X25_FAC_CALLED_AE data, related to net/x25/x25_facilities.c and net/x25/x25_in.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-4164.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-3873?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel, Opensuse Opensuse, Suse Linux Enterprise Server.

How do I fix CVE-2010-3873?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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

Is CVE-2010-3873 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-3873 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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