CVE-2010-4250 (GCVE-0-2010-4250)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-06-21 23:00
Modified
2024-08-07 03:34
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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