CVE-2010-4343

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2010-05-21
IAVA:
2011-A-0147
Bugzilla:
661182: CVE-2010-4343 kernel: bfa driver sysfs crash

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_core.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 does not initialize a certain port data structure, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via read operations on an fc_host statistics file.

Find out more about CVE-2010-4343 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4 as it did not include support for the Brocade Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter driver. It did not affect the version of Linux kernels as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as they have the included the fix for this issue. A future kernel update in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 may address this flaw.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.7
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel) RHSA-2011:0017 2011-01-13

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