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CVE-2010-4250

CVE-2010-4250

EPSS 0.8%
Memory leak in the inotify_init1 function in fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving failed attempts to create files.
Affected products
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References
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093abhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656830https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093abhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/11