CVE-2010-4248
Race condition in the __exit_signal function in kernel/exit.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 allows local users to cause a denial…
- 4.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.32%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 75% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Race condition in the __exit_signal function in kernel/exit.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 allows local users to cause a denial of service via vectors related to multithreaded exec, the use of a thread group leader in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c, and the selection of a new thread group leader in the de_thread function in fs/exec.c.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 14 days later
· 14 days later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.9 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.32% · top 75% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
15
- 42789 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0024 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- RHSA-2011:0004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Console (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 46397 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.37-rc2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2011:0007 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 45028 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20101124 Re: CVE request: kernel: posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 42890 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e0a70217107e6f9844628120412cb27bb4cea194 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656264 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- MDVSA-2011:029 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20101123 CVE request: kernel: posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-4221 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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