Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-4169

Title: Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-4169.

CWE Category CWE-416

Published Date Nov 22, 2010

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.9 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.43%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-4169: Use-after-free vulnerability in mm/mprotect.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 allows local users to cause a denial of service via vectors involving an mprotect system call.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=63bfd7384b119409685a17d5c58f0b56e5dc03da http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128979684911295&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128984344103497&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 http://secunia.com/advisories/42778 http://secunia.com/advisories/42932 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.37-rc2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44861 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0124 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651671 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/63316 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=63bfd7384b119409685a17d5c58f0b56e5dc03da http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128979684911295&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128984344103497&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 http://secunia.com/advisories/42778 http://secunia.com/advisories/42932 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.37-rc2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44861 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0124 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651671 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/63316

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.9

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-4169 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 22, 2010 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.