CVE-2010-0410

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-02-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

drivers/connector/connector.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and system crash) by sending the kernel many NETLINK_CONNECTOR messages.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10
Debian Linux: 4.0, 5.0
Linux kernel: before 2.6.32.8 — fixed in 2.6.32.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 2.6.32.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f98bfbd78c37c5946cc53089da32a5f741efdeb7
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035070.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035159.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00007.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/38492
http://secunia.com/advisories/38557
http://secunia.com/advisories/38779
http://secunia.com/advisories/38922
http://secunia.com/advisories/39033
http://secunia.com/advisories/39649

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