CVE-2010-3873 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Kernel
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
NVD5.0CNA5.0
EPSS
3.4%
top 12.62%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 3
Latest updateMay 13
Description
The X.25 implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 does not properly parse facilities, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via malformed (1) X25_FAC_CALLING_AE or (2) X25_FAC_CALLED_AE data, related to net/x25/x25_facilities.c and net/x25/x25_in.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-4164.
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9
Affected Packages6 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 5.0