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CVE-2010-1643

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.9 Published: 2010-06-03 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

mm/shmem.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc3, when strict overcommit is enabled, does not properly handle the export of shmemfs objects by knfsd, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and knfsd crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References