CVE-2010-4650

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 2012-06-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the fuse_do_ioctl function in fs/fuse/file.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the ability to operate a CUSE server.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.36.4; 2.6.36.1, 2.6.36.2, 2.6.36.3

References

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7572777eef78ebdee1ecb7c258c0ef94d35bad16
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/18
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667892
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7572777eef78ebdee1ecb7c258c0ef94d35bad16
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7572777eef78ebdee1ecb7c258c0ef94d35bad16
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/18
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667892
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7572777eef78ebdee1ecb7c258c0ef94d35bad16

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