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CVE-2010-4661

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• 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: 2019-11-13 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-434

Description

udisks before 1.0.3 allows a local user to load arbitrary Linux kernel modules.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: all versions
• Opensuse: 11.3, 11.4
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0
• Udisks Project Udisks: before 1.0.3 — fixed in 1.0.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Udisks Project Udisks 1.0.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00000.html
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-4661
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4661
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4661
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00000.html
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-4661
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4661
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4661

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