CVE-2010-1084

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-04-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Linux kernel 2.6.18 through 2.6.33, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a large number of Bluetooth sockets, related to the size of sysfs files in (1) net/bluetooth/l2cap.c, (2) net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c, (3) net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c, and (4) net/bluetooth/sco.c.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.18, 2.6.18.1, 2.6.18.2, 2.6.18.3, 2.6.18.4, 2.6.18.5 (+241)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=101545f6fef4a0a3ea8daf0b5b880df2c6a92a69
http://secunia.com/advisories/39830
http://secunia.com/advisories/43315
http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-1084
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2053
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/23/1
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0610.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516397/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38898
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576018
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=101545f6fef4a0a3ea8daf0b5b880df2c6a92a69

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