CVE-2010-4242 (GCVE-0-2010-4242)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-01-11 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:34
VLAI
Summary
The hci_uart_tty_open function in the HCI UART driver (drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c) in the Linux kernel 2.6.36, and possibly other versions, does not verify whether the tty has a write operation, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via vectors related to the Bluetooth driver.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1021 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2010-10-07 00:00
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