CVE-2010-3849

medium
Published 2010-12-30 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.7

Description

The econet_sendmsg function in net/econet/af_econet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2, when an econet address is configured, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a sendmsg call that specifies a NULL value for the remote address field.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-15704 local linux verified
Dan Rosenberg ยท 2010-12-07

Linux Kernel 2.6.37 (RedHat / Ubuntu 10.04) - 'Full-Nelson.c' Local Privilege Escalation

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OS impact

debian Debian Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
5.0 Affected โ€”
linux Linux kernel Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected 2.6.36.2
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
10 Affected โ€”
9 Affected โ€”
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
10.10 Affected โ€”
10.04 Affected โ€”
9.10 Affected โ€”
8.04 Affected โ€”
6.06 Affected โ€”

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.