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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
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-20… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0375 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-01… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/7/255 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/cve-2010-424… x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/43291 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2010-10-07 00:00
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      "id": "CVE-2010-4242",
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      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
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      "current_release_date": "2026-08-27T02:14:14Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2010-4242",
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      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:56:01Z",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "409",
      "product_status:recommended": "17",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
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      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2010-4242",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2010-4242.json",
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}



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