CVE-2010-4343 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2010-4343?

CVE-2010-4343 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 29 Dec 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_core.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 does not initialize a certain port data structure, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via read operations on an fc_host statistics file.

Weakness: CWE-665

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4343?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Linux kernel, Vmware Esx.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4343?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2010-4343 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4343 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-6fq2-2mw9-3j26.