CVE-2010-1162

Description

From CVE.org

The release_one_tty function in drivers/char/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34-rc4 omits certain required calls to the put_pid function, which has unspecified impact and local attack vectors.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5 as they did not include upstream commit ab521dc0 that introduced the problem. This issue was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise MRG via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0631.html.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score4.97.2N/A
Attack VectorLocalLocalN/A
Access ComplexityLowLowN/A
AuthenticationNoneNoneN/A
Confidentiality ImpactNoneCompleteN/A
Integrity ImpactNoneCompleteN/A
Availability ImpactCompleteCompleteN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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