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CWE
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Advisory Published
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CVE-2010-1084: Buffer Overflow

First published: Tue Mar 23 2010(Updated: )

Description of problem: When creating a high number of Bluetooth sockets (L2CAP, SCO and RFCOMM) it is possible to scribble repeatedly on arbitrary pages of memory. Ensure that the content of these sysfs files is always less than one page. Even if this means truncating. The files in question are scheduled to be moved over to debugfs in the future anyway. Upstream patch: <a href="http://git.kernel.org/linus/101545f6fef4a0a3ea8daf0b5b880df2c6a92a69">http://git.kernel.org/linus/101545f6fef4a0a3ea8daf0b5b880df2c6a92a69</a> Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Neil Brown for reporting this issue.

Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Linux Kernel=2.6.18
Linux Kernel=2.6.18.1
Linux Kernel=2.6.18.2
Linux Kernel=2.6.18.3
Linux Kernel=2.6.18.4
Linux Kernel=2.6.18.5
Linux Kernel=2.6.18.6
Linux Kernel=2.6.18.7
Linux Kernel=2.6.18.8
Linux Kernel=2.6.19
Linux Kernel=2.6.19.1
Linux Kernel=2.6.19.2
Linux Kernel=2.6.19.3
Linux Kernel=2.6.19.4
Linux Kernel=2.6.19.5
Linux Kernel=2.6.19.6
Linux Kernel=2.6.19.7
Linux Kernel=2.6.20
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.1
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.2
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.3
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.4
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.5
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.6
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.7
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.8
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.9
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.10
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.11
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.12
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.13
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.14
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.15
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.16
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.17
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.18
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.19
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.20
Linux Kernel=2.6.20.21
Linux Kernel=2.6.21
Linux Kernel=2.6.21.1
Linux Kernel=2.6.21.2
Linux Kernel=2.6.21.3
Linux Kernel=2.6.21.4
Linux Kernel=2.6.21.5
Linux Kernel=2.6.21.6
Linux Kernel=2.6.21.7
Linux Kernel=2.6.22
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.1
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.2
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.3
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.4
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.5
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.6
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.7
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.8
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.9
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.10
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.11
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.12
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.13
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.14
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.15
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.16
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.17
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.18
Linux Kernel=2.6.22.19
Linux Kernel=2.6.23
Linux Kernel=2.6.23.1
Linux Kernel=2.6.23.2
Linux Kernel=2.6.23.3
Linux Kernel=2.6.23.4
Linux Kernel=2.6.23.5
Linux Kernel=2.6.23.6
Linux Kernel=2.6.23.7
Linux Kernel=2.6.23.8
Linux Kernel=2.6.23.9
Linux Kernel=2.6.23.10
Linux Kernel=2.6.23.11
Linux Kernel=2.6.23.12
Linux Kernel=2.6.23.13
Linux Kernel=2.6.23.14
Linux Kernel=2.6.23.15
Linux Kernel=2.6.23.16
Linux Kernel=2.6.23.17
Linux Kernel=2.6.24
Linux Kernel=2.6.24-rc1
Linux Kernel=2.6.24-rc2
Linux Kernel=2.6.24-rc3
Linux Kernel=2.6.24-rc4
Linux Kernel=2.6.24-rc5
Linux Kernel=2.6.24.1
Linux Kernel=2.6.24.2
Linux Kernel=2.6.24.3
Linux Kernel=2.6.24.4
Linux Kernel=2.6.24.5
Linux Kernel=2.6.24.6
Linux Kernel=2.6.24.7
Linux Kernel=2.6.25
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.1
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.2
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.3
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.4
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.5
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.6
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.7
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.8
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.9
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.10
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.11
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.12
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.13
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.14
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.15
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.16
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.17
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.18
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.19
Linux Kernel=2.6.25.20
Linux Kernel=2.6.26
Linux Kernel=2.6.26.1
Linux Kernel=2.6.26.2
Linux Kernel=2.6.26.3
Linux Kernel=2.6.26.4
Linux Kernel=2.6.26.5
Linux Kernel=2.6.26.6
Linux Kernel=2.6.26.7
Linux Kernel=2.6.26.8
Linux Kernel=2.6.27
Linux Kernel=2.6.27-rc1
Linux Kernel=2.6.27-rc2
Linux Kernel=2.6.27-rc3
Linux Kernel=2.6.27-rc4
Linux Kernel=2.6.27-rc5
Linux Kernel=2.6.27-rc6
Linux Kernel=2.6.27-rc7
Linux Kernel=2.6.27-rc8
Linux Kernel=2.6.27-rc9
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.1
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.2
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.3
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.4
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.5
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.6
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.7
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.8
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.9
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.10
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.11
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.12
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.13
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.14
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.15
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.16
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.17
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.18
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.19
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.20
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.21
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.22
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.23
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.24
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.25
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.26
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.27
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.28
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.29
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.30
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.31
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.32
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.33
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.34
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.35
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.36
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.37
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.38
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.39
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.40
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.41
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.42
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.43
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.44
Linux Kernel=2.6.27.45
Linux Kernel=2.6.28
Linux Kernel=2.6.28.1
Linux Kernel=2.6.28.2
Linux Kernel=2.6.28.3
Linux Kernel=2.6.28.4
Linux Kernel=2.6.28.5
Linux Kernel=2.6.28.6
Linux Kernel=2.6.28.7
Linux Kernel=2.6.28.8
Linux Kernel=2.6.28.9
Linux Kernel=2.6.28.10
Linux Kernel=2.6.29
Linux Kernel=2.6.29.1
Linux Kernel=2.6.29.2
Linux Kernel=2.6.29.3
Linux Kernel=2.6.29.4
Linux Kernel=2.6.29.5
Linux Kernel=2.6.29.6
Linux Kernel=2.6.30
Linux Kernel=2.6.30.1
Linux Kernel=2.6.30.2
Linux Kernel=2.6.30.3
Linux Kernel=2.6.30.4
Linux Kernel=2.6.30.5
Linux Kernel=2.6.30.6
Linux Kernel=2.6.30.7
Linux Kernel=2.6.30.8
Linux Kernel=2.6.30.9
Linux Kernel=2.6.30.10
Linux Kernel=2.6.31
Linux Kernel=2.6.31-rc1
Linux Kernel=2.6.31-rc2
Linux Kernel=2.6.31-rc3
Linux Kernel=2.6.31-rc4
Linux Kernel=2.6.31-rc5
Linux Kernel=2.6.31-rc6
Linux Kernel=2.6.31-rc7
Linux Kernel=2.6.31-rc8
Linux Kernel=2.6.31.1
Linux Kernel=2.6.31.2
Linux Kernel=2.6.31.3
Linux Kernel=2.6.31.4
Linux Kernel=2.6.31.5
Linux Kernel=2.6.31.6
Linux Kernel=2.6.31.7
Linux Kernel=2.6.31.8
Linux Kernel=2.6.31.9
Linux Kernel=2.6.31.10
Linux Kernel=2.6.31.11
Linux Kernel=2.6.31.12
Linux Kernel=2.6.31.13
Linux Kernel=2.6.32
Linux Kernel=2.6.32.1
Linux Kernel=2.6.32.2
Linux Kernel=2.6.32.3
Linux Kernel=2.6.32.4
Linux Kernel=2.6.32.5
Linux Kernel=2.6.32.6
Linux Kernel=2.6.32.7
Linux Kernel=2.6.32.8
Linux Kernel=2.6.32.9
Linux Kernel=2.6.32.10
Linux Kernel=2.6.32.11
Linux Kernel=2.6.33

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is the severity of CVE-2010-1084?

    CVE-2010-1084 has been assigned a low severity rating based on its impact on Linux Kernel versions 2.6.18 to 2.6.33.

  • How do I fix CVE-2010-1084?

    To fix CVE-2010-1084, you should ensure that the content of sysfs files related to Bluetooth sockets is limited to less than one page through truncation.

  • What versions of the Linux Kernel are affected by CVE-2010-1084?

    CVE-2010-1084 affects multiple versions of the Linux Kernel, specifically from 2.6.18 through 2.6.33.

  • What types of Bluetooth sockets are involved in CVE-2010-1084?

    CVE-2010-1084 involves Bluetooth sockets including L2CAP, SCO, and RFCOMM.

  • What potential impact does CVE-2010-1084 have on systems?

    The impact of CVE-2010-1084 includes the potential to overwrite arbitrary pages in memory, which can lead to system instability or crashes.

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