CVE-2010-3066

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-12-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The io_submit_one function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.23 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted io_submit system call with an IOCB_FLAG_RESFD flag.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.22.19; 2.6, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.10, 2.6.11 (+192)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=87e2831c3fa39cbf6f7ab676bb5aef039b9659e2
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024708
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.23
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0839.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631716
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=87e2831c3fa39cbf6f7ab676bb5aef039b9659e2
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024708
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.23

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