CVE-2010-4256

Publication date

2011-01-25 18:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The pipe_fcntl function in fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not properly determine whether a file is a named pipe, which allows local users to cause a denial of service via an F_SETPIPE_SZ fcntl call.