CVE-2010-4169 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2010-4169?

CVE-2010-4169 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 20 Nov 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Use-after-free vulnerability in mm/mprotect.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 allows local users to cause a denial of service via vectors involving an mprotect system call.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4169?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Linux kernel, Opensuse Opensuse, Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop, Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension, Suse Linux Enterprise Server.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4169?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2010-4169 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4169 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-cx34-9hmm-493f.