Security Advisory

CVE-2010-4250

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-06-21 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 03:34:37
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.