CVE-2010-1187

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: 2010-03-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) functionality in Linux kernel 2.6.16-rc1 through 2.6.33, and possibly other versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPS) by sending datagrams through AF_TIPC before entering network mode, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04
Debian Linux: 5.0
Linux kernel: from 2.6.16 (excl.) through 2.6.33; 2.6.16, 2.6.16-rc1, 2.6.16-rc2, 2.6.16-rc3, 2.6.16-rc4, 2.6.16-rc5 (+2)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d0021b252eaf65ca07ed14f0d66425dd9ccab9a6%3Bhp=6d55cb91a0020ac0d78edcad61efd6c8cf5785a3
http://secunia.com/advisories/39830
http://secunia.com/advisories/43315
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2053
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:198
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/30/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/31/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516397/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39120
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578057
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9832

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