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Tracker / CVE-2010-4250

CVE-2010-4250

Medium 4.9

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.36.4

Analysis

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