CVE-2010-4256 (GCVE-0-2010-4256)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-01-25 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:34
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Summary
The pipe_fcntl function in fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not properly determine whether a file is a named pipe, which allows local users to cause a denial of service via an F_SETPIPE_SZ fcntl call.
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